An African teenager has been attacked by a machete-wielding thugs who broke into his Adelaide home looking for his gang member brother.
The three hooded attackers smashed their way into the house in Eyre just before 2am on Thursday morning, slashing a 16-year-old male in front of his younger brother and 11-year-old sister.
“I seen them slice his head,” the young girl told 7 News.
“Right above his eyebrow, with a machete, it was like a very long machete.”
“They were looking for my big brother, the one they were hitting, they thought that it was him,” her brother added.
CCTV shows the 18-year-old intended victim run from the home moments after the attack, and his siblings said it wasn’t the first time armed thugs have come looking for him.
“My brother is in a gang, the 051, and they’re from KVS, and they’re enemies … and that’s why they keep coming to our house trying to get him,” the 11-year-old girl said.
The injured teenager was taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries, South Australia Police said on Thursday.
Police believe the three attackers – two of whom were armed with machetes – may have fled in a black sedan, and “suspect the incident was not random”.
The attack comes just weeks after two African killers were sentenced to almost two decades in bail for stabbing another Sudanese male to death in Adelaide’s CBD.
Ngor Bol, 25, was chased through the city on Anzac Day, 2022, before being stabbed six times, kicked in the head and stomped on by the two men, whose identities have been suppressed by the courts.
The horrific murder came after a spate of stabbings affecting Adelaide’s small Sudanese community.
The wave of violence was blamed at the time on gang members from Melbourne travelling interstate to purse vendettas, and Premier Peter Malinauskas acknowledged there were issues within the Sudanese and other African communities.
Header image: The three machete-wielding attackers caught on CCTV before and after the attack (7 News)
