A two-year-old boy was hit in the face with a brick after getting caught up in a fight between a group of men in a car park.

The toddler was taken to hospital with cuts and bruises around his eye following the incident.

The fight broke out when three men approached a man outside a shopping centre in Perth, western Australia and asked for a cigarette.

When the man refused the trio threw bricks at him, one of which hit the toddler who was nearby.