Man hospitalised, two arrested after fight in Melbourne's shopping centre


A photo taken by witnesses at Northland Shopping Centre shows a person wielding a knife lunging at two other people.

SYDNEY: One man was hospitalised and two others were arrested after a fight that forced a Melbourne shopping centre into lockdown on Sunday (May 25) afternoon.

Police in the Australian state of Victoria said in a statement that emergency services were called to reports of a fight involving around 10 people, some of whom were armed with knives, shortly after 2:30pm at the Northland Shopping Centre, 10 kilometers northeast of central Melbourne.

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