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Last minute holiday shoppers have been filmed brawling with each other in New Jersey, Alabama and Georgia shopping malls ahead of Christmas.

A fight broke out at Jersey City's Newport Center Mall on Friday night when two people started punching each other in the middle of a huge crowd.

As onlookers gathered around while several people hit each other, a separate fight broke out off to the side.


Multiple security guards tried to intervene and were punched in the process.

Video shot by a witness captured the ordeal, which happened right near where a line of children were waiting to meet the mall's Santa.

It is unclear exactly how many people were involved in the fight.

Security guards can be clearly seen trying to restrain at least one person as children ran past and cried out for their parents.

A woman who only identified herself as Larissa told the New Jersey Journal she was shopping with her mom when she heard the fight break out.

'I just seen a bunch of flying fists and I seen the security guards getting punched and anyone that was in the way getting punched,' she said.

Police said the fight was instigated by a number of minors but no one was injured or arrested as a result.

Other fights broke out in Alabama and Georgia on Saturday as shoppers tried to finish up their Christmas shopping.

In the Alabama incident, a fight erupted between two women but was soon broken up by multiple officers at the scene.

But another fight ensued between two different women.

At least one female in the first fight in the Alabama mall was seen in handcuffs as police led her out of the mall.

And the fight in Georgia broke out in a Topshop, a women's clothing store, between two women, who knocked down several items of merchandise before the fight was broken up by mall security.

One woman is seen punching another woman, who is on the ground. The same woman is then seen pulling the other's hair while friends try to pull her away.

Also on Christmas Eve, a man was taken to the hospital after he was stabbed while trying to break up a fight between two teenagers at the Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood.

The man's condition is unclear but police no one else was stabbed in the incident.