Cops swarm shopping centre after customer is stabbed

A shopping centre has been thrown into chaos following reports of a stabbing.

Police swarmed Bayside Shopping Centre in Frankston, south-east Melbourne, after a shopper was allegedly stabbed on Tuesday morning.

One worker told the Herald Sun a ‘substantial amount of blood’ was left on the ground prompting staff to close their stores. 

Another female staff member added that she had seen ‘quite a large machete’ amongst a group of about five young people.

A shopper said she and her mother had been escorted into a store after the pair saw the pool of blood.

Leigh Warne, who was also shopping at the time, said he saw a teenager covered in blood running towards three others near a Country Road store.

Mr Warne added that security took ‘three to five minutes’ to respond and that there ‘were no alarms going off’.

‘People were walking around unaware,’ he said.

Mr Warne said other shoppers were yelling at one boy in the group to ‘throw the knife away’.

He added that the teens looked like ‘eshays’, appeared to be between 15-and-18-years-old and were seemingly fighting amongst themselves.

‘I noticed three young kids running toward me with a knife, and then another kid running behind chasing them, he had a lot of blood on him,’ he told the publication.

‘They ran down the escalators near Country Road and all of the shops just started shutting their doors.

‘They were just there for themselves, not looking for members of the public to stab or injure, it looked like some sort of fight between them.’

Mr Warne added that security took ‘three to five minutes’ to respond and that there ‘were no alarms going off’.

‘People were walking around unaware,’ he said.

Others on social media have also been reporting what they have seen online. 

‘My partner was walking down and all the doors were shut. He saw the kids with the knife and another kid that was bleeding everywhere,’ one person wrote.

‘Country Road [opened] their doors for my partner to get in and shut them again.’ 

The incident had been resolved and stores inside the shopping centre reopened by 11:45am. 

Victoria Police have been contacted for a statement.

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