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A 37-year-old woman is dead and a 12-year-old girl has been arrested following a stabbing in Melbourne.
Emergency services were called to the former Royal Hotel pub in Footscray around 2 am on Thursday following reports of an altercation inside the building and the grim discovery of the lifeless body of a woman.
The woman suffering from stab wounds was found dead at the scene.
A young girl, 12, was arrested at the scene and taken to the hospital for medical assessment, where she remains under police guard.
Homicide detectives remain at a inner-city hostel in Melbourne where a woman was allegedly stabbed to death early Thursday morning
The hostel on Footscray’s main street remains cordoned off following the fatal stabbing
‘Investigators are attempting to establish if the parties were known to each other,’ a police spokesperson said.
The former historic pub on Barkly Street is now understood to be a hostel.
It’s understood an altercation allegedly broke out in the hostel on the upper floors, where the building has been converted into apartments.
Homicide detectives and forensic officers remain at the cordoned off crime scene near Footscray’s main shopping strip on Thursday morning.
Police tape blocked the entrance of the building.
Police urge anyone with information, CCTV or dashcam footage to come forward.
Homicide detectives are still trying to establish whether the woman and girl were known to each other. Pictured are police at the crime scene
It’s understood an altercation allegedly broke out in the hostel on the upper floors, where the building has been converted into apartments.
Local business owners were shocked to hear about the incident but noted an uptick in crime in the past few years.
‘After the pandemic people are just so agro, I don’t know what’s going on, they get heated up so quickly,’ she said.
‘I had an incident just last night where someone tried to kick in the windows to my shop, I reported it to the police.’
Forensic officers spent Thursday morning scouring for evidence on Barkly Street
Police (pictured) arrested a girl, 12 at the scene, who is in now in hospital under police guard
