SYDNEY, Australia: Police in Australia have charged a 45-year-old man with "aggravated assault" for allegedly binding three young Indigenous children with cable ties after they swam in a pool without permission.

Social media images appeared to show the tearful children — a 6-year-old girl and two boys ages 7 and 8 — with their hands tied together outside a home in Broome town, Western Australia state, during the incident on Tuesday.

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