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Four arrested after stabbing at Lilydale station



Four teenagers have been arrested after a stabbing occurred in the early hours of the morning on Saturday 8 October in Lilydale.

Yarra Ranges Crime Investigation Unit detectives charged the teenage boys following reports of a stabbing at Lilydale railway station.

It is alleged a group of teenagers were involved in an assault and stabbed a male below the overpass on the Maroondah Highway just after midnight.

Protective Service officers intervened and the offenders fled the scene before they were arrested nearby.

An 18-year-old Gruyere man was taken to hospital with serious facial injuries.

A 17-year-old Croydon boy, 16-year-old Bayswater North boy, 16-year-old Mitcham boy and a 17-year-old Boronia boy have all been charged with recklessly cause serious injury, intentionally cause injury and other assault related offences.

They will appear at a children’s court at a later date.

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