Two individuals have been arrested after a human leg was discovered on a Northern Territory freeway this week following what police allege was a hit-and-run.
The leg of a "dark-skinned human being" was found by a member of the general public on the Stuart Freeway, simply north of Coolalinga, on Tuesday morning however no physique may very well be discovered.
At about 11.45pm yesterday, police attended a house on Jenkins Street in Virginia and recovered the rest of a lady's physique.
Police will allege a 23-year-old male driver hit and killed the girl earlier than his 50-year-old feminine passenger helped with shifting the physique to a different location.
The person and girl had been earlier arrested at separate properties in Palmerston and Winnellie final evening.
Detective Senior Sergeant Paul Morrissey mentioned police had positioned a "deceased Aboriginal girl" whose physique was "partially hid" on the Jenkins Street house.
"We consider that is the sufferer of the collision," he mentioned.
Morrissey mentioned the pair can be charged later at present with "offences in relation to driving inflicting dying and trying to pervert the course of justice".
He couldn't verify if the pair are associated.
The girl is but to be recognized.