One of the victims of the savage assault, identified only as Andrew, described his attackers “animals”.

The terrifying ordeal unfolded when the gang of African teenagers began destroying fencing outside the St Kilda Life Saving Club on the famous Melbourne beach, Australia.

Two landscape gardeners working on the site yelled at the men who responded by unleashing a brutal onslaught.

Andrew said: “There were about 30 of them and they all turned at once and attacked me, all of them swinging at once.

“I just told them to get out of the construction site and then they just looked at me and they just charged at me like animals, like in the wild, they were wild animals.”