Three Aborigine boys airlifted to hospital after circumcision ritual goes horrifically wrong and they are left sitting in 'pools of blood'

Three teenage boys have been hospitalised following a circumcision ceremony in the Northern Territory that went disastrously wrong. The boys were evacuated to Darwin from a remote community near Borroloola, 700km away in the Gulf of Carpentaria, after suffering severe cuts during the ceremony. The incident has sparked anger and debate in the community over safety procedures surrounding indigenous initiation ceremonies. One of the boys who was airlifted to hospital, Bryce Miller, 17, said when he was circumcised the cut was so bad that 'heaps' of blood poured out.

'I seen blood squirting through on the wrong side, it was bad. Squirting out bad ... heaps. And losing a lot of blood,' he told ABC News. According to news reports, no officials from the local health clinic were present at the ceremony, which involved about 20 boys and took place on December 23, 2013. Clinic staff have attended such ceremonies in the past. Some staff, who did not want to be named for fear of losing their jobs, have told the media that they were appalled by what had happened. Bryce’s grandfather, ambulance driver William Miller, said he was shocked to arrive at the ceremony to find his grandson 'sitting in a pool of blood'. 'I wasn't happy at all with the whole people who done the job,' Mr Miller said.

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