Man, 27, is fighting for his life after being attacked by a group of armed African men as he stepped out of his Toyota sedan
- A man is in critical condition after being attacked by a group of African men
- He was hit with a weapon after he stepped out of his Toyota sedan this morning
- The car driver witnessed the attack and said the attackers left in red vehicles
A 27-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was ambushed and brutally beaten by a group of up to ten African men in Melbourne early on Sunday morning.
The man was hit on the head with a blunt object as he stepped out of the passenger seat of a black Toyota sedan at 4.30am on King Street in the city’s west.
He was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition with serious head injuries.
A Seabrook man, 27, is in critical condition in hospital with serious head injuries after he was hit with a blunt weapon at 4.30am on King Street in Melbourne
An anonymous witness said two red cars boxed in the Toyota.
When the victim stepped out of the car, the men started ‘flooding’ from the vehicles and attacked him, the witness said.
‘That’s when people just started flooding out of the other cars and it was all of them on one,’ he said to The Daily Telegraph.
‘The worst part was when you saw this metal bar, potentially even a baseball bat, come up in the air and swing down on to his head.
‘That happened a few times and by the end of it you had to wonder how he was alive.’
The attackers fled when an ambulance approached the scene.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman said ‘the offenders are perceived to be of African appearance’
‘It was quite brutal and quite confronting,’ said Acting Detective Sergeant Simon Watts.
‘The offenders are perceived to be of African appearance,’ a Victoria Police spokeswoman said.
‘It is believed the offenders may have been travelling in two vehicles, a red Subaru and a red Mitsubishi.’
The driver who dropped off the victim is helping with police inquiries.
No arrests have been made so far.
The attack occurred outside of a Dulux store on the corner of King street and Roden street in West Melbourne