Adelaide shopping centre evacuated after teen fight

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Police have arrested two teenagers following the incident.
A police officer in riot gear walks out glass doors branded with the Westfield logo at a shopping centre in Adelaide.

An Adelaide shopping centre was evacuated yesterday after SA Police declared a major “incident”.

Assistant Commissioner Scott Duvall said Westfield Marion triggered its emergency procedures after a brawl broke out between two groups of teenagers in the centre’s food court.

Duvall said the teenagers were known to each other and were armed with “expandable batons”.

Police have arrested two teenagers following the incident.

SA Ambulance said two people were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

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