A community has been left with a growing sense of fear as multiple offenders remain at large after the alleged double murder of two youths.

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Dau Akueng, 15, and a 12-year-old boy were fatally attacked while walking home from a local basketball match at Cobblebank in Melbourne's outer northwest on Saturday evening.

The alleged offenders remain on the run, with police describing the incident as having the "hallmarks of a youth gang crime".

Officers believe the attacks were targeted but will also probe if they were a case of mistaken identity.

"The children who were murdered were not gang members and it is not OK to remain silent," Detective I

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