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Police have arrested four teenage boys in Melbourne's CBD following a pursuit that started in the city's east. 
Multiple witnesses have reported seeing a white BMW stop in Bourke Street Mall with four young males jumping out and fleeing on foot through Myer. 
Police say they are interviewing the teenagers and are yet to lay any charges.
Police have arrested four teenage boys after a car chase through Melbourne's east and the CBD, culminating in the boys fleeing on foot at Bourke Street Mall.
Investigators say the youths, aged between 15 and 17, first came to their attention allegedly driving erratically in a BMW on the Eastern Freeway in Doncaster about 12:30pm.
Officers followed the car to Melbourne's CBD where a pedestrian was allegedly struck on Exhibition Street. 
The BMW, believed to have been allegedly stolen yesterday in Melbourne's inner east, was dumped in Bourke Street Mall, a busy pedestrian and tram zone, with the four boys fleeing on foot.
Police say all four were arrested a short time later in Lonsdale Street and did not have weapons.
They are currently being interviewed by police.
The woman who was hit by the car is being treated in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
Ambulance Victoria confirmed paramedics treated one person about 1:05pm.
A white BMW was towed away from Bourke Street Mall on Monday afternoon after four teenage boys allegedly fled from it, only to be arrested minutes later. (ABC News: Kristian Silva)
Vision of the mall showed a white BMW with partially shattered front and rear windshields parked over the tram tracks that run through the shopping strip.
A number of people were also gathered in the street.
Witness Richard Haig was on his phone and leaning against a bollard in Bourke Street Mall when he saw a police car and then moments later a BMW. 
"Four young people jumped out of the car, sprinted through there," he said, gesturing towards Myer.
Mr Haig said he and another bystander ran to the empty car which was still moving.
"Another lady came across to put it into park and put the brakes on," he said.
Witness Richard Haig said he helped bring the BMW to a stop. (Kristian Silva: ABC News)
Mr Haig said the BMW was forced to stop because of bollards directly ahead and a tram coming through on the other side of the road. 
"There was nowhere to go, hence they quickly abandoned the car and ran through Myer."
Mr Haig said the young people he saw where wearing masks and "black hoodie-type clothing", and could not say whether they were carrying weapons.
Another witness told the ABC he had just finished lunch at a restaurant on the corner of Bourke and Swanston Streets when he saw a white BMW driving down the mall — a pedestrian and tram area — at about 50 to 60 kilometres an hour.
"Then as we turned the corner we noticed police cars were coming down as well," the witness, Vince Galasso, said.
Vince Galasso says he saw a white BMW speeding down Bourke Street Mall. (ABC News)
"As we were approaching and got near the car we saw that police were coming [the other] way as well.
"They were coming from every direction."
A third witness, James Duffy, said he was walking through Myer when he saw "teenagers just running straight through Myer, straight through the Emporium" towards Melbourne Central.
"Like probably one minute later I saw about five cops running through heavily armed," he said.
Witness Jock Claringbold said he and his Year 10 friends were walking on the second level of Emporium and saw the teenagers run past.
He said police then caught up to them.
"They were like, 'get on your knees' and all of that," Mr Clarinbold said.
"And then the runaways, they gave up and they got down on their knees and the cops pinned them down … and then more cops kept swarming in. There was like 20 or 25 of them. 
Jock Claringbold said police officers caught up to the fleeing teenagers in Emporium. (ABC News)
"They had massive guns and stuff, like proper SWAT."
Yarra Trams said the route 86 and 96 trams were being diverted away from Bourke Street Mall due to the "emergency services request". 
Footage from the scene shows the white BMW being towed away as police officers remain stationed throughout the mall.
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