Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's excuse for her 48-hour delay in addressing the gruesome alleged machete attack on two youths in Melbourne over the weekend has been called into quesiton by the opposition.

On Saturday night, Dau Akueng, 15, and his friend Chol, 12, were slain in a brutal alleged machete ambush in Cobblebank , near Melton, in Melbourne.

In a press conference on Tuesday morning, Ms Allan said she had taken 48 hours to publicly discuss the horrific incident because she was focusing on supporting grieving communities.

“My focus in that past day or so has been to support communities that are grieving, supporting the grief that is very real for the members of the Victoria Police family and spending time with members of those families, hearing their grief, listening to their

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