A group of African teens stood around filming after thugs jumped out of a car and attacked a Sudanese male with machetes in Melbourne, a shocked witness has revealed.
The bystander said about 10 youths of Sudanese appearance stood and watched the victim, who was also African, bleed from severe wounds to his upper body and hand after he was set upon outside the CS Square shopping centre in Caroline Springs on Thursday afternoon.
He said that rather than help the group of teenagers instead filmed the injured teenager, who the Good Samaritan said had cuts too large to have been made by a kitchen or household knife and that had to have been made by “something like a machete”.
“There was blood everywhere, all over me,” he told the Herald Sun, adding that he feared the victim, aged about 17, would die as he held his head in his hands.
“I saw so many people standing around, there were so many not helping beside one person.
“He was in and out of consciousness throughout the process, I was just trying to keep him awake and keep him alive.”
The teenage victim was stabbed by a group of thugs who jumped out of a car at the back of the Coles supermarket at the shopping centre and fled through the loading bay.
Victoria Police said they arrived at 5.15pm and found a male in his late teens with injuries to his hand and body, who was then taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital with possibly life-threatening injuries.
As of Friday morning he was still in a critical condition.
The horrific attack comes after a 15-year-old boy was allegedly stabbed by a gang of Asian teenagers armed with machetes in the suburb of Springvale on Sunday night.
Victoria have since charged four males, aged 14, 15, 16 and 17, over that alleged attack.
