A family, including two children, have been terrorised by a group of intruders during a home invasion which left a man seriously injured.

Five people allegedly broke into a home on Oxford St in Kew East, Melbourne , about 4am on Sunday.

They arrived in a car, jumped over a front fence and smashed the window of a study to get inside.

A husband and wife were awoken by the sound and confronted by the offenders.

Two of the offenders were allegedly armed with a machete, a knife and garden sheers belonging to the family.

The couple were put in separate rooms, with the 34-year-old woman kept in the room where her children, aged two and three, were sleeping.

A scuffle broke out between the 39-year-old husband and the offenders, during which he was stabbed 11 times suffering injuries to his

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