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The home invasion occurred at a home in Kew East. (Nine)<\/p>\nTwo teenagers are among three men who have been arrested after a father was allegedly stabbed in the head after a family home was targeted in Melbourne’s north-east while toddlers were at the house.\ufeff<\/p>\n
He will need surgery after the attack police described as “awful”.<\/p>\n
Three other adults – the children’s grandparents and mother – were also attacked and taken to hospital following the allegedly random attack at a home on Oxford Street in Kew East around 4am today.\ufeff<\/p>\n
The home invasion occurred at a home in Kew East. (Nine)<\/p>\n
Detective Sergeant Leeanne Trusler said she’d “never seen anything like this” incident while speaking to media this afternoon.<\/p>\n
The five offenders allegedly smashed their way through a window of the house with secateurs they found in the garden, \ufeffthen confronted a husband and wife they had woken up.<\/p>\n
“This is awful,” Trusler said.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know how I would be if that was my family.”<\/p>\n
They group allegedly forced the wife to stay in the room where her two and three-year-old children were asleep, and took the husband to another room, where he was stabbed 11 times in his head, face and arms with a machete.<\/p>\n
Trusler said the grandparents, aged 70 and 69, rushed to the man’s aid, and the grandfather was cut on his hands and leg.<\/p>\n
The grandmother was pushed around, suffering bruising and scuff marks to her face\ufeff.<\/p>\n
Four of the offenders then allegedly got into the victim’s BMW, and the fifth offender left in the vehicle all the offenders arrived in.<\/p>\n
The stolen BWM was found dumped on Christie Street in Deer Park after it was involved in a collision.<\/p>\n
Three males were arrested a short time later on Hamilton Street in Deer Park.<\/p>\n
The husband, a 39-year-old man, was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Trusler said that as well as cuts he had suffered a broken arm and would need eye surgery.<\/p>\n
The mother, a 34-year-old woman, was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n
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Detective Sergeant Leeanne Trusler said the victim was very seriously injured. (Nine)<\/p>\n
The two children and a fifth adult were not injured.<\/p>\n
Teenage boys aged 16 and 17 and a 24-year-old Caroline Springs man are being interviewed as police continue to search for the other offenders.<\/p>\n
Trusler said she believed this incident was different to typical aggravated burglaries where cars are stolen while families sleep because the homeowner confronted the group.<\/p>\n
“It’s generally sneak in, sneak out and off they go,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I think they’re not used to people fighting back, and this homeowner fought back.”\ufeff<\/p>\n
\ufeffTrusler said there was “no rhyme or reasoning in any” of how the incident played out.\ufeff<\/p>\n
“They’re meant to be safe and they’re woken up and they’re treated like this.<\/p>\n
\ufeff”This has got to stop.”<\/p>\n