{"id":124540,"date":"2025-09-07T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124540\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:32:07","slug":"two-boys-fatally-stabbed-in-melbourne-in-series-of-suspected-targeted-attacks-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124540\/","title":{"rendered":"Two boys fatally stabbed in Melbourne in series of suspected targeted attacks | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two boys have been killed in Melbourne in what police suspect is part of a series of targeted attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The two youths were fatally stabbed in Cobblebank, in the city\u2019s west, on Saturday night, detectives said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A 12-year-old boy with critical injuries was found by emergency services on Marble Drive about 8pm and later died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Shortly afterwards a seriously injured 15-year-old boy was given treatment nearby on Cobble Street, but he also died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&amp;CMP=emailbutton\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Officers said they believed the two fatal attacks were connected but the exact circumstances were still being determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cAt this time police are treating it as a targeted attack and the investigation remains ongoing,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cToo many Victorians have been victims of crime,\u201d the Victorian opposition leader, Brad Battin, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cLast night, two more Victorians were tragically added to that tally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two boys have been killed in Melbourne in what police suspect is part of a series of targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-124540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}