Police have shot an armed man in the South Island township of Motueka, whom they say pointed a firearm at them. The dust had barely settled on yesterday’s massive manhunt in the North Island, when New Zealand police were required to deal with another armed offender this afternoon. The man was critically injured in Wharepapa…
A man has been taken to hospital in Auckland after he was pierced in the chest by a stingray whilst scuba diving in the Hauraki Gulf, scene of New Zealand’s only stingray fatality. He was airlifted from Pakatoa Island with moderate injures and is said to be undergoing tests. Neither his name, nor his nationality…
Another foreign tourist has been attacked in his room at a backpackers whilst holidaying in New Zealand. Jan Fakotor, from the Czech Republic was attacked by a New Zealand man, described as “an odd ginger man in spectacles”. An American back packer, Matt Sullivan, saw the attack on his room mate at the Hat Trick…
A Canadian tourist, Matt Brazeau, has had his thigh pierced clean through by a Stingray whilst standing in surf after falling out of his canoe near Waitara, near New Plymouth, sometime this week. He told the Taranaki Daily News “I was reaching for the kayak and felt this unbelievable pain through my leg. It was…
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