Two children dead after suspected youth gang attack in Melbourne

Two bodies, believed to be children, have been found at separate crime scenes in Melbourne’s west in a suspected youth gang related attack.

Two children have been found dead at separate crime scenes believed to be linked in Melbourne.

Victoria Police homicide detectives are on the scene at two addresses approximately 200m apart in Cobblebank, 33km from the CBD, where a 12-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were killed in a suspected youth gang attack on Saturday night.

The youngest victim had been stabbed to death and was found at a house on Marble Drive.

The teen victim sustained “horrific mutilation injuries” and was found dead at a nearby address on Cobble St, the Herald Sun reports.

It is being treated as a “targeted attack, and the investigation remains ongoing”, a Victoria Police spokesperson said in a statement to news.com.au.

Police descended on the two addresses around 8pm on Saturday (local time) and cordoned off the street.

They arrived on Marble Drive to find a 12-year-old male with critical injuries and started CPR, but the boy died at the scene, police confirmed.

A short time later, police responded to reports of another boy who was seriously injured nearby on Cobble St.

Treatment was given to the 15-year-old male, but he also died at the scene.

The exact circumstances surrounding the deaths are still being determined but are believed to be connected, police added.

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