Fresh reports of a stabbing incident that has left three men hospitalised at Barkly Square shopping centre in Brunswick, Melbourne
#BREAKING Reports of a stabbing incident in a Brunswick shopping centre in Melbourne pic.twitter.com/hrz88GPtvG
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Witnesses say a man with a knife has attacked someone in shopping centre in Brunswick.
Three men are now in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A sibling of a worker at Coles in Barkly Square Shopping Centre told 3AW the centre had to be evacuated.
Sandra, whose brother works at Coles in Barkly Square Shopping Centre, told Neil Mitchell the shopping centre has been evacuated.
“There’s a guy running around with a knife and he stabbed a customer in the Coles supermarket. All of the employees are locked up in their various shops,” she told Neil Mitchell.
Two male victims hot taken to hospital from the scene.
According to 3AW, a man was arrested at the scene and has been taken to hospital with self-inflicted wounds.
Police are not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident.
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Further details as they come.
