Australian police investigating incident that led to evacuation of Adelaide mall

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Australian police said on Sunday (June 23) that they were investigating an incident at a shopping mall in the southern city of Adelaide that led to an evacuation of the centre and resulted in some minor injuries.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Australian police announced on Sunday that they are investigating an incident at Adelaide's

00:08Westfield Marion Shopping Centre that led to an evacuation and resulted in minor injuries.

00:14We weren't really sure what was happening. People sort of started moving and then there

00:18was a message catch with the speakers that we had to get out and everyone sort of like

00:22started to panic a bit and sort of just got out of the theatre through one of the emergency

00:26exits and made our way down. Didn't really know what was sort of going on but my wife

00:32and our daughter are still inside one of the stores in lockdown so that's why we've sort

00:36of, that's why we've hung around obviously waiting for them to make sure that they're

00:40okay. So we've spoken to them and they're getting looked after in one of the stores

00:43and but obviously really sad serious situation and obviously with everything that happened

00:49in Sydney everything's hyper vigilant and on alert.

00:51I don't really know a lot. I know that there was an emergency called. I was waiting in

00:55OPSM for an appointment and they ushered us to the back room and said lights out and wait

01:03for further news and I went ahead and had my appointment in the end and then was okay

01:10to go but I understand they had come in in the meantime and said to people that you can

01:15leave by the back door so I believe it's all contained but I don't really know.

01:20Police said they received reports of two groups of young men fighting in the food court with

01:24some individuals reportedly carrying weapons.

01:28I have looked at the CCTV. It involves three youth and I will call them boys under 18 years

01:36of a Caucasian appearance. They approach another group of boys and an altercation occurs. The

01:45expandable batons are seen and at this stage we can't discount any other weapons but we

01:50do have some reports that a knife may be involved. Those three boys chased the other

01:55boys through the centre. It does not appear to be a random attack and it does not appear

02:00that the three boys were intending on targeting anyone else in the centre.

02:05He said no one was injured in the altercation among the group of young men but a 77-year-old

02:11woman might have fractured a bone during the evacuation and a 14-year-old girl might have

02:16been injured in the process. The incident comes less than three months after a man attacked

02:21shoppers with a knife at another Westfield mall in Sydney, killing six people.

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