Seven teens are being questioned after their arrest in dawn raids over the "senseless" stabbing murders of two boys.

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Chol Achiek, 12, and Dau Akueng, 15, died after being attacked while walking home at Cobblebank, in Melbourne's outer northwest, on September 6.

The youths were ambushed by a group of masked males armed with machetes and other bladed weapons.

Another boy walking home from a basketball game with the slain pair managed to escape.

Police raided properties in seven suburbs, all in Melbourne's outer west, northwest or north, on Thursday morning.

Homicide Squad detectives arrested seven teenagers, including a 19-year-old Thornhil

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