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Melissa Meehan and Callum Godde

Pressure mounts to end the bloodshed after boys killed

The brutal suburban killing of two boys has families planning to send children overseas for safety. (David Crosling/AAP PHOTOS)

As two families prepare funerals for their young sons, a community has been left searching for answers to stop the bloodshed.

Chol Achiek, 12, and Dau Akeng, 15, were killed while walking home in Cobblebank in Melbourne's outer northwest late on Saturday after being ambushed by up to eight masked males armed with machetes and other bladed weapons.

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