unprovoked

Hewas struck by a rubber bullet and hit with tear gas last week in an apparently unprovoked attack by DHS agents.

In one recent incident filmed by a bystander and widely circulated among Kenyans, police shot a Nairobi street vendor in the head at point-blank range, apparently unprovoked.

That database only tracks "unprovoked" incidents – excluding those potentially encouraged by humans through activities such as spear fishing – but a fuller database of all recorded shark interactions in Australia is maintained by Taronga Conservation Society.

Louise Oakley, prosecuting, said the Crown's case was that the three girls had carried out "unprovoked violence" in their attack.

At the time of the incident, the Prison Officers Association said the staff sustained life-threatening injuries including burns, scalds and stab wounds in an "unprovoked" and "vicious" attack.