Emergency services rushed to Northland Shopping Centre, Preston, in the north of Melbourne, at 2.39pm on Sunday after receiving reports of an assault.

Victoria Police's Superintendent Kelly Lawson said a fight broke out in the Northland Shopping Centre food court about 2:30pm, after 10 people belonging to two "rival gangs" met up.

Saurabh Anand did not hear a sound as the five teenage boys came up behind him. Two of his attackers have since been bailed.

A witness told of hearing “blood curdling” screams then seeing a man sprinting through Northland Shopping Centre’s food court clutching the four-year-old girl on Thursday night.

The vehicle then reverses into the side of a police car at least twice before heading toward the shopping centre’s entrance about 4pm. The footage shows the LandCruiser ramming a police car.

As he watched footage of a Land Cruiser ploughing through Northland shopping centre, an Ivanhoe East man joked with his family that the vehicle could be his stolen 4WD. Then the cops called.

Northland was sent into a second lockdown in less than 24 hours on Thursday after a fire at the Myer department store. Those twin dramas come less than a month after shoppers were terrified by a ...

The vehicle then reverses into the side of a police car at least twice before heading toward the shopping centre’s entrance about 4pm. The footage shows the LandCruiser ramming a police car.