Two teenagers charged over the stabbing deaths of two children have refused to come to court for a compulsory DNA procedure, and prosecutors are searching for a way to force the accused to attend.

The boys, aged 16 and 15 and who cannot be identified due to their age, were due to face a children’s court on Friday after being charged with murder over the deaths of Chol Achiek, 12, and 15-year-old Dau Akueng .

Dau Akueng, 15 (left), and Chol Achiek, 12, were attacked and killed in Cobblebank last month.

Chol and Dau were allegedly set upon by a group of males at Cobblebank, in Melbourne’s outer north-west, on September 6 while walking home from a basketball match.

Prosecutors have applied for the two accused, who are among eight males charged over the deaths, to undergo a compulsory

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