Update: Home owners have used an iron bar to brutally bash two young men who tried to break into their house in Melbourne's outer north-west, police say.

The two men, believed to be in their 20s, were attacked during an attempted aggravated burglary at the home on Beverley Street in Kings Park, a police spokesman said.

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It's believed the home owners grabbed an iron bar with a wooden handle and fought off the armed intruders with the weapon at 6.45am on Sunday, he said.

One of the Kings Park men at the home told News Ltd, his brother, 26, went to buy groceries at 6.30am when he was confronted at the door by two men wearing hooded jackets and handkerchiefs over their faces.