An African man has been stabbed to death in Melbourne, the second in two days and the fifth victim this year of the city’s African gang and knife crime epidemic.
Victoria Police said they were called to a home in Endeavour Hills early on Sunday morning where they found 21-year-old Giew Ter Tuol dead inside a home with knife wounds.
Distraught family members turned up at the scene later than morning, and a woman was seen wailing “they killed my son” before collapsing and being taken away by paramedics.
A 19-year-old man from Springvale South was arrested nearby and is still being interviewed by homicide detectives.
That man also suffered stab wounds to his hand, arm and torso, and was knocking on doors asking for help and saying he was worried about the safety of his family, Nine News reported.
The pair had arrived at the home after being questioned and released by police over another matter.
The stabbing death came a day after another African man, 36, was stabbed to death at a public housing complex in Ascot Vale on Saturday morning, and on Monday a 29-year-old man was charged with murder and common law assault.
The two deaths in two days come after another three African males were allegedly killed in Melbourne in the first three months of the year.
Last month Sudanese man Timothy Leek, 24, was allegedly hacked to death by a group of other African men with machetes in Lyndhurst in an alleged gang-related attack.
In February Congolese man Nathan Mwanza, 23, was allegedly stabbed to death at a bus stop in Wyndham Vale.
And in January Sudanese man Lino Atem, 24, was allegedly stabbed to death just 500 metres from where Mwanza was killed.
Header image: Left, Giew Ter Tuol. Right, a man arrested nearby (Victoria Police, Nine News).
