{"id":490224,"date":"2026-06-22T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490224\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:49:17","slug":"man-critically-injured-in-assault-at-burnham-military-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490224\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured in assault at Burnham military camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is fighting for his life after an assault at Burnham military camp on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Lynch Media understands the incident occurred at the Burnham Junior Ranks Club within Burnham Military Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Inspector Craig Farrant, Canterbury District Field Crime Manager told chrislynchmedia.com \u00a0\u201cTwo people are before the courts following an assault at a Canterbury military facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice received the report of the alleged assault at around 12.30am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim has sustained critical injuries.<br \/>\u201cTwo men, aged 25 and 27, have been charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and will appear in the Christchurch District Court on Monday 22 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4886525685406391961xmsonormal\">\u201cPolice are not seeking anybody else in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4886525685406391961xmsonormal\">Canterbury police are working closely with the New Zealand Defence Force on this incident, and as the matter is before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4886525685406391961xmsonormal\">Police are unable to comment further, Farrant said.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Defence Force spokeswoman said \u201can incident occurred at Burnham Military Camp on Friday night that resulted in serious injuries sustained by a New Zealand Army soldier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo individuals have been charged. As the matter is before the courts, we have no further comment to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is fighting for his life after an assault at Burnham military camp on Saturday morning. Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[373,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-490224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-featured","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}