🔻New details about the injury of an Australian MP in a car accident that was described as “intentional”*

After Helen Haines, an independent member of the Australian parliament, was run over near her office, Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, described the incident as an “intentional act” and said police investigations into it

a report said her physical condition is critical.

The Australian prime minister said the driver, in order to hit this parliamentarian, while she was standing beside the rear of her car and near her office in Wangaratta in the state of Victoria, turned around and returned to her previous route.

A suspect, a 43-year-old man from a nearby town to Taroona-wingi, was stopped at the scene by one of the bystanders before being arrested by police.

Police are scheduled to question the suspect on Tuesday.

The 65-year-old independent MP has undergone surgery after being transferred by helicopter to a hospital in Melbourne.

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