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Melbourne's west, police say Updated 27 minutes ago
Police officers. PHOTO: Police believe the four incidents are linked. (ABC News: Margaret Burin) MAP: Sunshine 3020 A teenager has been attacked with a baseball bat in one of a series of serious incidents in Melbourne's western suburbs overnight, Victoria Police say.
Detectives are looking for a number of African offenders over what they say are four linked incidents — two home invasions and two attacks on teenagers who were walking.
Police said the crime spree began about 9:30pm on Thursday when a male got out of a car in Taylors Hills and demanded a 17-year-old boy give him all his goods.
"The victim refused and kept walking. The teenager was then struck to the back of the legs with what is believed to be a baseball bat," Victoria Police spokeswoman Belinda Batty said in a statement.
"The teenager ran and was chased by the offender and a second male that got out of the car, they then pushed him to the ground where he was assaulted."
Police said the boy was then dragged along the ground before the offenders fled in the waiting car.
In a second incident two hours later, four males smashed a glass door at a house in Hillside before striking a 59-year-old woman and forcing her to sit in her front room, while ten other males ransacked her house.
Police said the males stole electrical items and car keys.
A number of electrical items and car keys were stolen before all the males left.
Shortly afterwards a 16-year-old boy walking along the street was knocked to the ground by a group of males who approached him in car in Cairnlea.
"Three to four males knocked the teenager to the ground and started to kick and punch him," Ms Batty said.
"The offenders took his mobile phone and demanded his passcode before driving away."
In the final incident, about 12:30am, three males smashed a window and broke into a home in Delaney, before being chased out when the occupants of the house armed themselves, police said.
They escaped in a light-coloured sedan, after stealing a mobile phone.
An hour later, police said they spotted the stolen car believed to have been involved in the incidents, and attempted to intercept it in Sunshine.
A chase ensued and the car was found a short time later crashed into a fence and power pole.
The offenders ran off on foot.
No arrests have been made.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, sunshine-3020, vic, delahey-3037, melton-3337
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