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Three charged after alleged family violence attacks

Two men and a woman have been charged after allegedly choking and assaulting their partners or former partners in three separate family violence incidents across Canberra.

Police allege a 39-year-old Queanbeyan man choked his former partner before stabbing her in the leg with a knife in Tuggeranong on Friday. He was located in Narrabundah on Saturday morning and arrested.

In a separate incident on Saturday morning, a 20-year-old man allegedly choked and hit his former partner at his apartment in Kingston after taking her phone to prevent her leaving the residence.

Later that evening, a 44-year-old Stirling woman was arrested after she allegedly choked and assaulted her partner while he was holding a young child.

All three have been charged with a range of family violence offences, including choking, suffocating or strangling another person, assault, intentional wounding and forcible confinement.

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