Horrified Broadmeadows shoppers watched on as two masked assailants wielding machetes fought inside a shopping centre on Friday night.

A fight between two groups broke out in the Broadmeadows Central shopping centre car park about 7.20pm on Friday and moved inside the venue, which is about 15 kilometres north of the Melbourne CBD.

Two people with machetes fight at a Broadmeadows shopping centre on Friday night. Credit: Instagram/Jacqui Felgate

In footage of the incident posted online, onlookers can be seen hiding inside locked storefronts and screaming as two people clad in black swing their machetes at each other from a distance.

In a separate video, a male holding a chair is seen trying to get between the duo. Loading

The fighters then fled the scene and the respective group

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