Queensland police release footage in bid to solve suspected vigilante attack on house of teen girls

Officers investigating link between racist flyers and arson attack on home of two girls accused of assault

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Police have released security camera footage in an attempt to identify three men who distributed racist flyers in the Sunshine Coast suburb of Tewantin, in the days before a suspected vigilante arson attack on a vacant house.

The flyers, which listed the name of an interstate white supremacist group, contained a racial slur and the images of two local girls accused of a serious assault and depravation of liberty.

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