Major update after two teenagers were stabbed in front of terrified shoppers at a busy Westfield
A 18-year-old man has been arrested after two teenagers suffered stab wounds in a brawl at a busy Sydney Westfield.
Emergency services were called to the Mount Druitt shopping centre about 5.15pm on Tuesday with reports of an assault.
Shoppers told police a group of young men, believed to be known to each other, had begun brawling outside the centre.
NSW Police confirmed two people were stabbed with a knife.
NSW Ambulance paramedics and doctors from CareFlight treated one man, aged in his 20s, for several stab wounds to his upper body.
He was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
A second man, believed to be aged in his late teens, was treated for a slash wound on his hand and face.
He was transported to hospital in a stable condition.
Police have opened an investigation into the fight which ended in the stabbing of two young men
One 20-year-old man was treated for minor injuries at the scene and did not need further care.
'Officers attached to Mount Druitt Police Area Command established a crime scene and have commenced an investigation in relation to the incident,' a NSW Police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia.
Witnesses reported seeing one man stabbing another in the chest before a third attempted to intervene, earning himself a stab to his hand.
Prior to the stabbing, locals said a larger group of teens had been fighting.
'We (saw) it, two teens were getting chased and bashed by a group of guys with weapons, they had balaclavas on,' one wrote on a online community group.
Others added the group had been chasing the boy 'with a chair'.
They said the knife-wielding then attacker appeared and stabbed at one of the teens before running into a nearby Kmart store.
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