A person is in critical condition following an incident involving rival gang members outside Palmerston North District Court.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to the scene just after 10am today.<\/p>\n
Inspector Phil Ward, acting Manawat\u016b Area Commander, said in a statement to NZME that one person had been taken into custody following a physical altercation outside the court.<\/p>\n
“At around 10am, police were called to the public entrance of the courthouse following reports of the altercation involving several rival gang members.”<\/p>\n
An investigation has been launched and further arrests have not been ruled out, he said.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said it responded with one ambulance and one rapid response vehicle.<\/p>\n
“One patient was assessed and was transported to Palmerston North Hospital in a critical condition.”<\/p>\n
Samuel Sijm told NZME he was in the area this morning when he came across the incident.<\/p>\n
He said he had spoken to bystanders who alleged multiple people had fled the scene at speed.<\/p>\n
Sijm said he saw a man being quickly loaded into an ambulance.<\/p>\n
“He was in recovery position,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Bystanders were understandably shook [sic] but there was still quite a lot of commotion and interest from the public.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is in critical condition following an incident involving rival gang members outside Palmerston North District Court.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-529056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/529056","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=529056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}