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Two feuding families wielding axes and other weapons have clashed on a suburban street, leaving residents fearing for their lives.

‘I saw a bunch of people holding a guy down holding an axe to his neck so I really thought he was dead,’ single mum Afrodite Larentzou said.

Afrodite Larentzou said she felt imprisoned in her own home after tensions erupted outside her home in the Darwin suburb of Moil last Friday.

Ms Larentzou claimed at least two men were on top of another with an axe against his neck before she began filming the melee. 

She later shared the footage online in a desperate plea to Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles to crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour.

Her ordeal comes amid reports the NT government has ordered Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker to resign.

‘I heard screaming outside so I went to see what was going on,’ she told Sky News Australia. 

‘I saw a bunch of people holding a guy down holding an axe to his neck so I really thought he was dead.’

Ms Larentzou’s confronting video begins with several men running up the street being chased by a larger group, including women.

One weapon can be seen flying through the air, narrowing missing the men armed with tomahawks, as they duck for cover.

The feuding groups can be heard loudly screaming at each other for several minutes, despite desperate attempts by others to calm the situation.

An older man can be standing helplessly nearby as several try to intervene by holding back several of the feuding members from attacking each other.

The warring groups eventually turned on Ms Larentzou when they spotted her filming the altercation from her balcony.

‘You f****** sl*t,’ one said.

Another added: ‘This is our land’. 

Single mum Afrodite Larentzou said she was abused and threatened by warring blackfellas in her street in suburban Darwin, yelling ”this is our land.”

Ms Larentzou can be heard calling out that she has phoned the police as the groups storm off in opposite directions while still yelling at one another.

She also claims she was abused and assaulted by an associate of one of the feuding groups the next day. 

‘I was sitting on the balcony and there was this man who came and starting yelling at me, threatening me, saying ‘this our land,’ Ms Larentzou recalled.

‘Luckily there was a guy with a van driving through and he saw what happened and he asked me if I’m ok. I said no, he’s threatening me, so he called the police.’

She was surprised no one was killed in Friday’s incident and is now too scared to take her children to the local parks, where the groups reportedly dwell.

She said crime and anti-social behaviour has escalated in the neighbourhood in the last two months to the point business owners close at 5pm.

‘It’s only got worse. I’ve been here six years, I’ve never seen this before, this is really scary,’ Ms Larentzou earlier told The Australian.

‘They own this place, they do whatever they want, the really scary thing is that they have no fear about anything.’

She rejected the NT’s Acting Deputy Police Commissioner’s recent claims crime levels have dropped in Darwin.

She also claims she was abused and assaulted by an associate of one of the feuding groups the next day. 

‘I was sitting on the balcony and there was this man who came and starting yelling at me, threatening me, saying ‘this our land,’ Ms Larentzou recalled.

‘Luckily there was a guy with a van driving through and he saw what happened and he asked me if I’m ok. I said no, he’s threatening me, so he called the police.’

She was surprised no one was killed in Friday’s incident and is now too scared to take her children to the local parks, where the groups reportedly dwell.