{"id":205694,"date":"2025-09-06T19:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:03:11","slug":"two-children-stabbed-to-death-in-melbournes-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205694\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children stabbed to death in Melbourne\u2019s west"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two boys have been stabbed to death in Melbourne\u2019s west in what is suspected to be a targeted, youth-gang attack.<\/p>\n

Homicide Squad detectives are on the scene after a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were fatally stabbed in Cobblebank, near Melton, on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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Two children have been found dead at separate crime scenes in Melbourne\u2019s west.Credit: Paul Rovere<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Marble Drive just before 8pm after reports of a person being seriously injured.<\/p>\n

They arrived to find a 12-year-old male with critical injuries and started CPR, but the boy died at the scene.<\/p>\n

A short time later, police responded to calls about a male with horrific injuries on Cobble Street, which is around the corner.<\/p>\n

Treatment was given to the 15-year-old boy, but he also died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police said they are still determining the exact circumstances surrounding the deaths, but they are believed to be connected.<\/p>\n

It is being treated as a targeted attack, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit an online confidential report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two boys have been stabbed to death in Melbourne\u2019s west in what is suspected to be a targeted,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-205694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115158909194161613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}