A man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing two security guards with a broken bottle during a wild rampage at a Melbourne shopping centre.
Police were called to Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre in Mulgrave at about 2pm on Wednesday, arriving 15 minutes after witnesses made a citizen’s arrest and held the man until officers arrived.
Footage from inside the centre obtained by 7 News shows the man, aged in his 30s, lunging at the security guards before being stopped by other shoppers.
Witnesses said one of the security guards was slashed across the face while trying to disarm the man.
A 62-year-old man was taken to hospital with minor injuries while a 35-year-old man also suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
The man can be seen shouting in a foreign language while being restrained by two shoppers, one of them an elderly man.
Witnesses said the man had been yelling obscenities near a play area, and when security guards tried to move him on he smashed a soy sauce bottle and used it as a weapon.
The man remains in custody but is yet to be charged.
The incident comes just days after three teenagers were allegedly stabbed when ethnic gang violence erupted at another Melbourne shopping centre, Westfield Doncaster.
Five teens were charged with offences including assault, affray and robbery, and three were granted bail.
Two weeks before than, 16-year-old Oscar Hamilton was allegedly stabbed to death in an unrelated incident at Melbourne’s Woodgrove Shopping Centre, which is notorious for African gang violence.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder over his death.
Header image: The man allegedly stabs security guards at Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre, left. Citizen’s arrest, right (Seven News)
