A child's first birthday celebrations have ended in tragedy after a fight broke out and led to the deaths of two family members. Emergency services were called to reports of an altercation at a home in Clyde North, in Melbourne's outer southeast, at 9.30pm on Thursday 16th January. Two men, aged 23 and 54 from Seaford, were found with stab wounds and treated by paramedics but both died at the scene. Investigators would like to speak with guests who left the scene before police arrived. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000.
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00:00It was a private party, people were known to each other, and what we're very interested
00:05in is some people left quite poised about it.
00:09And we really need to speak to those people so we can piece together exactly what happened
00:13here last night.
00:14There's several people we haven't spoken to yet, I can't really tell you anything
00:18further than that.
00:19At this stage, it's very early on, and we are working on getting in contact with those
00:24people so hopefully we can actually shed some light on what happened here.
00:29It was just a private birthday party, that should have been a celebration, and unfortunately
00:33it's had this tragic result.
00:35Some neighbours have said that they believe there were gatecrashers to this party, are
00:39you able to confirm or deny that?
00:41It's not my understanding, we believe that they were known to each other at this stage,
00:45but as I said, there's still people that we haven't been able to speak to, so that's
00:49what we're very interested to find out.