A school for children with special needs has been put into lockdown in after machete-wielding teens terrorised a Melbourne suburb.
Hampton East School – a junior to year 12 institution for students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities – was put into lockdown around 2pm on Tuesday.
It is understood two men armed with machetes got out of a vehicle on Dane Road, just south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, and were seen chasing two people down the street.
One witness told Daily Mail the victims appeared to be walking past the school when they were set upon by the armed attackers.
The victims were seen fleeing into a nearby park pursued by the machete-wielding thugs.
The incident is believed to have been captured on nearby CCTV cameras in and about the school.
The school is just down the road from Moorabbin Primary and located in what is supposed to be a well-to-do-area of Melbourne.
Victoria Police officers from Moorabbin are believed to have converged on the area.
The incident is the latest in Melbourne’s seemingly endless crime wave.
Just days ago a security guard at Knox shopping centre in Melbourne’s south-east was seriously injured after he was allegedly assaulted by an unknown offender who fled before police arrived.
Latest crime stats out of Victoria show 18 Victorian children have been murdered at the hands of an offender carrying a blade – either a knife or a machete – in the last four years.
Of those 18 killed, 11 were gang related.
In nine of those 11 gang-related homicides, the child victim was reportedly from a migrant community.
Victoria Police has been contacted over the Hampton East incident.
More to come.
