Youth gang crime has been branded a cancer as a state turns to local experts in response to the double murder of two innocent boys.

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Dau Akueng, 15, and another boy, 12, were walking home in Cobblebank, in Melbourne's northwest late on Saturday when police say they were ambushed by eight masked males and fatally stabbed.

The search for the perpetrators, whom authorities say could have gang links, continued on Monday amid calls for tougher penalties for weapons-related violence.

Offences statewide committed by youths aged 10 to 17 jumped 17.9 per cent in the year to March to its highest level since records began in 1993, according to the late

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