{"id":528291,"date":"2026-07-16T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528291\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:42:09","slug":"christchurch-assault-emergency-services-rush-to-block-of-waltham-flats-as-one-person-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528291\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch assault: Emergency services rush to block of Waltham flats as one person seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Police and ambulances attend a scene where one person has been injured in Waltham, Christchurch, today. Photo \/ Anna Heath\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police and ambulances attend a scene where one person has been injured in Waltham, Christchurch, today. Photo \/ Anna Heath<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">One Hato Hone St John ambulance and two rapid response vehicles are at the scene, along with two police cars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">A neighbour, who did not want to be named, said there had been \u201cproblems\u201d at the block of houses in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">One person has been taken to Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"uXGlmRGscvPe\" style=\"display:none\">St John referred the Herald to police for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and ambulances attend a scene where one person has been injured in Waltham, Christchurch, today. Photo \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,806,17704,1558,1972,4487,15974,46009,10933,1304,111,43,139,69,1118,5270,4056,766,21532,23419,1321,1961,61,259180],"class_list":["post-528291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-as","tag-assault","tag-been","tag-block","tag-christchurch","tag-emergency","tag-flats","tag-injured","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-one","tag-person","tag-reports","tag-rush","tag-seriously","tag-services","tag-this","tag-to","tag-waltham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528291","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=528291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}