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Updated March 6, 2026 \u2014 7:30pm,first published 6:51pm<\/p>\n
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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n One person is dead after a fight broke out outside Mernda railway station in Melbourne\u2019s north-east.<\/p>\n Police were called to the incident on Bridge Inn Road about 5.50pm on Friday, when passersby reported groups of boys or men fighting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n They found one male unconscious with serious injuries, and paramedics attempted to revive him. However, he died at the scene.<\/p>\n Homicide Squad detectives were on the way to Mernda on Friday evening. Police said their investigation into what happened was ongoing.<\/p>\n Bridge Inn Road backs onto the railway station\u2019s car park, which is opposite two early learning centres.<\/p>\n Newbie Nest Early Learning and Kindergarten owner Sukhdeep Kaur said her centre was luckily not operating to usual hours on Friday, when the incident would have otherwise coincided with parents picking their children up.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n It was often the case children had to sit in their families\u2019 queuing cars for a few minutes during pick-up, in full view of the station\u2019s car park, Kaur said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf they [saw] something or they were confronted or something outside of childcare \u2026 you cannot get rid of these kind of traumas,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a horrible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n A resident of the nearby Ehipassiko Buddhist monastery, who asked not to be named, said he drove past the scene and saw police and State Emergency Service crews erecting a marquee.<\/p>\n He assumed whatever happened was an accident, before he discovered police were investigating it as a homicide. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking news,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Police asked Metro Trains to stop services between Mernda and South Morang about 8pm, two hours after the incident. Buses were replacing trains, with delays of more than an hour.<\/p>\n Victoria Police urged anyone who witnessed the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n To accommodate protective services officers patrolling Melbourne\u2019s shopping centres<\/a>, the Allan government in November scrapped<\/a> the Baillieu-era policy of having them at every train station in the suburban network overnight.<\/p>\n Instead, PSOs are present at 32 stations from 9am until last service, and another 72 have officers from 6pm until the last train. In the remaining \u201clow-crime rate\u201d 120 stations, officers operate in mobile clusters, with each team moving between six stations.<\/p>\n PSOs patrol Mernda railway station after 6pm, a police spokesman confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n Our Breaking News Alert will notify you of significant breaking news when it happens. Get it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n