{"id":59303,"date":"2026-07-27T09:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/59303\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:20:38","slug":"melbourne-cbd-rocked-by-two-machete-attacks-in-one-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/59303\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne CBD rocked by two machete attacks in one night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men have been left with \u201cserious injures\u201d after two separate attacks rocked the Melbourne CBD within hours of one another over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old has been left with serious injuries after a violent robbery and two men have been left with serious lacerations to their hands and arms after a second violent attack over a span of hours along Elizabeth St in the Melbourne CBD.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Police said five teenagers were arrested after a 17-year-old boy was set upon by a group not known to him about 10.40pm on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the shocking incident shows the offenders brandishing machetes as the victim desperately tries to fend them off.<\/p>\n<p>Police were able to track the teens using CCTV, which showed them fleeing the scene and hopping onto a train.<\/p>\n<p>They were released by police without charge \u201cpending further investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, about 5am, police were again called to Elizabeth St after a \u201cverbal dispute between two females escalated\u201d and resulted in a melee between two groups of men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident escalated and one male brandishing a machete chased two males and allegedly slashed both, causing serious injuries to the hand of one male and the arm of the other,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man who received a hand injury then ran to Flinders Street Station and asked for help from officers stationed there.<\/p>\n<p>Six people believed to be involved were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old from Brimbank, believed to have been out on bail, was allegedly responsible for the machete attack.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with intentionally causing serious injury in circumstances of gross violence, affray, possessing a prohibited weapon, drug possession, and committing an indictable offence while on bail.<\/p>\n<p>A 19-year-old man, a 16-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man also received a variety of charges related to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Police have urged anybody who witnessed the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/melbourne\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Melbourne\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have been left with \u201cserious injures\u201d after two separate attacks rocked the Melbourne CBD within 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