Police have charged four young people, who were all on bail, after an alleged machete brawl in Melbourne’s CBD early on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
Two people received serious injuries during the altercation at the intersection of Elizabeth and Flinders streets, near Flinders Station.<\/p>\n
Police said the incident occurred at about 5am after a verbal dispute between two females escalated.<\/p>\n
“Others within their respective groups got involved,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“The incident escalated and one male brandishing a machete chased two males and allegedly slashed both, causing serious injuries to the hand of one male and the arm of the other.”<\/p>\n
Six people, aged between 16 and 23, were arrested in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n
Four of those were charged with various offences, including committing an indictable offence while on bail.<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old male from the Brimbank area was also charged with intentionally causing injury in circumstances of gross violence, affray, as well as possessing a prohibited weapon and drugs.<\/p>\n
A 19-year-old man from Bacchus Marsh and a 16-year-old female from the Banyule area were both charged with affray, while a 23-year-old man from Laverton was charged with theft.<\/p>\n
The 16- and 23-year-olds were let out on bail to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n
Police said they gave a 17-year-old girl a caution for possession of drugs, while another young woman was released without charge.<\/p>\n
The investigation continues, and police have urged any witnesses to come forward with information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged four young people, who were all on bail, after an alleged machete brawl in Melbourne’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19251,64,63,22809,1108,1913,12979,21145,204189,226069,44,398341,398340],"class_list":["post-824723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-altercation","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brawl","tag-court","tag-fight","tag-injuries","tag-machete","tag-machetes","tag-melbourne-cbd","tag-news","tag-teens-charged","tag-youths-charged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824723","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=824723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}