{"id":614155,"date":"2026-04-18T02:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614155\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:21:08","slug":"machete-attack-on-group-in-melbourne-hospitalises-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614155\/","title":{"rendered":"Machete attack on group in Melbourne hospitalises man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s believed about 12 people were seated outside a business at Eaton Mall when a large group of unknown offenders wearing balaclavas approached at about 7.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>At least two of the masked group pulled out machetes and attacked an 18-year-old Malvern East man.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old boy was also attacked but was physically uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers fled on foot and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the offenders not yet being identified, police believe it was a targeted incident between parties known to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they would conduct proactive patrols in the area.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s believed about 12 people were seated outside a business at Eaton Mall when a large group of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-614155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614155","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=614155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}