00:00An urgent call for backup.
00:05Security guards at the Kazarina bus interchange, among the first to contact police about a
00:09disturbance at 2.45pm yesterday.
00:12The information that police received was that the altercation involved a number of males,
00:16some of them armed with edged weapons.
00:19From there, police say, the conflict spilled across the street to a nearby laneway, where
00:23a 27-year-old man was stabbed in the upper chest.
00:27During the altercation, there was also a 14-year-old female youth who received a stab
00:32or laceration wound to her arm.
00:34Two men, aged 33 and 45, were quickly arrested by transit safety officers and police, who
00:40seized two knives.
00:42Both men are in custody awaiting charges, while the two injured remain hospitalised
00:47in a stable condition.
00:48Police today reassured the public they're using measures like the government's new
00:52wanding laws to keep commuters safe.
00:54But targeting bus interchanges themselves could be the government's next move.
00:59The minister responsible, Mr Yan, is looking at a reprogram and a review of the whole bus
01:05system and I think he's talking about having buses that run around and maybe moving or
01:10not having interchanges at all and just having bus routes that go from stop to stop.
01:16Passengers today weren't convinced.
01:19Routes like this, terminal bus stops, this is where the safety is, I believe, and this
01:26is where we have our security coming around and watching us, serving us, supporting us.
01:35I think moving it is just moving the problem somewhere else, rather than using the mechanisms
01:42they've already got in place.
01:43A spokesperson from the government department responsible for public transport says it will
01:48consult with all stakeholders about improving bus safety.
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