A man has died after being ambushed and stabbed during a late-night knife fight in a park in Melbourne's west.
Police were called at around 11.30pm on Friday to reports of a group of people fighting in a park on Haynes Drive, Wyndham Vale.
A 24-year-old man from the same suburb was found with stab wounds and was treated, but died at the scene.
Two other 27-year-old men were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detective Inspector Paul Lloyd said 12 men in four white cars pulled up to the park where a group of seven other men had gathered.
“[It was] Instant. They jumped out and ran and an argument started,” he told reporters.
“It seems like they were clearly targeted, the way they showed up; [have] I just went straight there. ”
A 24-year-old man from Manor Lakes and three men from Windham Vale, two 26-year-olds and one 28-year-old, were arrested nearby and will be interviewed by investigators on Saturday.
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All four were part of the original group that gathered at the park, and the male attackers remain at large.
Police cordoned off the area and the crime scene remains in place.
