Shocking video footage in Chadderton shows a group of 'young girls' knocking on a home and then fighting the residents in the driveway and the street.
At around 8.30pm on Monday, September 23, CCTV captured the moment a large brawl broke out between young girls and some adults on a residential street in Chadderton.
The almost four-minute-long video, which has been shared widely on social media, begins by showing a group of four young girls walking up the street and approaching a front door.
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Another six youngsters could also be seen lingering behind on the pavement and most of the group had their hoods up.
The group of four then knocked on the door and started to walk away until a resident answered it.
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While the resident is off camera, the girls on the driveway could be seen engaging in what appears to be a heated discussion with the people inside the house.
Some of the girls were pointing and raising their fists in the argument.
With the group gathered around the doorway, it is unclear which girl threw the first punch but it appears the fight started while the residents were still in their home.
Arms and fists also emerged from the doorway towards the group of girls.
Seconds later, a girl either leaves or is 'pulled' from the house and other occupiers follow closely behind, including an adult man and approximately six others.
Both groups then engage in a large-scale brawl in the driveway.
The chaotic footage shows both the residents of the home and the gang of girls throwing punches at one another.
The first resident to leave the house was quickly surrounded by several members of the group who were pulling and hitting the girl in a circle.
However, the resident was fighting back and throwing her fists towards the group.
The fight spills out from the driveway and into the middle of the road.
A man from the house in a blue jacket could be seen attempting to separate some of the girls on the driveway, who then started slapping and hitting him.
The man then appears to shove a girl and exchanges slaps with another.
Meanwhile, at the side of the house, a young girl wearing pink from the home is 'slammed' into a wall.
She then grabs a girl dressed in black by her neck and her headscarf.
However, the girl in black pulls her hair and the pair stumble across the driveway, pulling and hitting one another.
The man in blue proceeds to seemingly hit a girl in the face, who retreats to the pavement, before intervening in the fight between the girl in pink and the girl in black who are being tugged back and forth.
Another girl, or possibly a young woman, wearing a grey gown from the home was also seen running towards the group with her arms raised.
She pulls another girl's hair and is pulled to the floor.
When she gets up, the pair pull each other's hair and struggle against a car on the driveway.
Other members of the group then start hitting the resident in the grey gown who tries to kick them away.
A man and a woman who are passing by the house momentarily stop on the pavement and speak to a resident.
The passer-by walks onto the driveway with his arms stretched out, apparently trying to stop the fight.
Another woman also passes by and stands with the other on the pavement.
Towards the end of the footage, a girl emerges from the side of the house with an Alsation-looking dog on a lead.
The group quickly disperse when they see the dog and leave the street.
The video ends as the woman in the grey gown was talking to the passers-by on the pavement and as the driveway looked littered with items of discarded clothing.
The footage has since sparked outrage on social media as residents across Oldham describe the fight as "disgusting" and a "disgrace".
Others allege some of the girls are well-known in the area and are considered "troublemakers", however, some have said the group shouldn't have gone to the home.
A woman wrote: "The way they was banging on that family home, they look like a bunch of school teenagers."
Another said the fight involved "literally 13-year-olds" and that the fight was "planned".
A third said: "They picked a fight with a 13-year-old, all of the girls in the house are 15 up to the ages of 23-24, what did they expect?"
A fourth added: "There's always two sides to a story."
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