Overview

• An altercation between two groups began about 7:20pm in the Pascoe Vale Road car park before spilling into the shopping centre.
• Social-media video shows two masked people swinging machetes as shoppers and staff sheltered behind locked store doors.
• Police say the groups left before officers arrived, departing in a silver Honda and a white Mazda.
• No injuries have been reported and no arrests have been made as detectives review evidence.
• Centre operator Vicinity kept the complex open with increased security, as the clash adds to a year of machete incidents that prompted a sales ban and weapon amnesty bins with thousands surrendered and more than 10,000 seized.