{"id":591889,"date":"2026-09-06T11:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591889\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:24:13","slug":"opotiki-brawl-three-people-taken-to-hospital-as-police-make-inquiries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/591889\/","title":{"rendered":"\u014cp\u014dtiki brawl: Three people taken to hospital as police make inquiries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788693853_235_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Three injured people were taken to Whakat\u0101ne Hospital. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bay of Plenty police are  investigating after a large street brawl left three people in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to Ford St in \u014cp\u014dtiki at about 11pm last night following reports of a fight involving a large group of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The group dispersed and police are making follow-up inquiries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said two ambulances responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Crews assessed three patients before all were taken to Whakat\u0101ne Hospital in a moderate condition, a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,806,51369,2241,84841,17709,3242,101,5812,111,43,139,69,384,1562,675,669,5424,19554,1529,61],"class_list":["post-591889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-as","tag-brawl","tag-hospital","tag-inquiries","tag-investigating","tag-large","tag-left","tag-make","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-ptiki","tag-street","tag-taken","tag-three","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591889","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=591889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}