{"id":205833,"date":"2025-09-06T20:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205833\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T20:19:09","slug":"two-children-dead-after-targeted-melbourne-stabbing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205833\/","title":{"rendered":"Two children dead after &#8216;targeted&#8217; Melbourne stabbing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two children have died after being stabbed in Melbourne&#8217;s outer west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to Marble Drive in Cobblebank just before 8pm on Saturday after reports a person had been seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They found a 12-year-old boy with critical injuries and tried to revive him but he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A short time later police found a 15-year-old boy seriously injured nearby on Cobble Street. He also died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Homicide Squad detectives are treating the incident as a targeted attack and believe the deaths are connected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Anyone with information is urged to contact <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crimestoppersvic.com.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two children have died after being stabbed in Melbourne&#8217;s outer west. Emergency services were called to Marble Drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,245,113321,113319,42127,113322,18929,9620,50,113320,7207,7358],"class_list":{"0":"post-205833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-cobble-street","11":"tag-cobblebank","12":"tag-dead","13":"tag-marble-drive","14":"tag-melbourne","15":"tag-murder","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-outer-west","18":"tag-police","19":"tag-stabbing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115159207995326206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205833","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=205833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}