Children would reportedly saw with deadly weapons in a busy shopping center, just a few days after they were banned

A popular one Melbourne The shopping center was sent in Lockdown on Friday evening after a group of boys reportedly carried Machetes days after a ban had come into effect.

The group of five to six boys was argued at around 6.40 pm in the Caroline Springs shopping center in the outskirts of West Melbourne of Caroline Springs.

A spokesperson for the Victoria Police told Daily Mail Australia that the boys were supposed to be armed with Machetes and had fled by the time officers arrived on the spot.

CCTV images obtained by Nine news Shown shoppers and retailers while they came together to avoid the armed crowd that seemed to threaten each other.

“I feel so scared … I’m just going to close the cafe quickly and tell my other staff ‘not gone’,” Pawan Kaur told Nine.

Witness Hung Nguyen watched in horror while a boy pulled what he believed like a machete from his backpack before the tensions overflow.

“I can’t believe it happened,” he said.

Shoppers hit by the lockdown plastered news from the incident on social media while the events unfolded.

Shown is a result of CCTV images obtained by nine news that a young man who is supposed to have been involved in the incident on Friday evening

A man in dark clothing is depicted by walking the mall on Friday evening, a machete, just a few days after Victoria’s Machete prohibition came into force

The popular shopping center in Melbourne was immersed in Lockdown after reports from a group of boys who wore Machetes

‘Another machete attack while I was going on my noodle’ Tap User wrote in a video that was filmed in the shopping center while the Lockdown announcement played about the speakers.

Although no injuries were reported, the incident questioned the effectiveness of a ban on the sale of Machetes by the Victorian government.

The prohibition followed a collision between suspected rival youth gangs who had worn the weapons in the Northland shopping center in Preston on 25 May.

Images from the inside The popular shopping center depicted shoppers who ran for coverage as a group of seven men, between 15 and 21 years old, square.

The next day, Prime Minister Jacinta Allan announced that her government would do that Bring the Machete ban forward Until a permanent prohibition comes into effect on 1 September.

‘The safety of the community comes first in Victoria. We should never post that we meet, places we fear, “said Mrs. Allan last Monday.

“I hate these knives, and I will continue to introduce as many laws as needed to get them out of our streets, from our stores and from our lives.”

Investigation into the incident of Caroline Springs will be underway.

Everyone who witnessed the case has video images or other information that could help the police are encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers.