{"id":608117,"date":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608117\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","slug":"two-injured-with-weapons-in-hastings-suburb-offenders-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608117\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured with weapons in Hastings suburb, offenders on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been injured with a weapon in the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to a Bristol Pl address at around 2.15pm on Tuesday to reports of disorder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people are reported to have been assaulted with weapons (not a firearm) and look to both have moderate injuries,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The alleged offenders fled the scene prior to police arrival; however, initial indicators suggest that the parties are known to each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>St John said it sent an ambulance and a rapid response vehicle to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two patients were assessed at the scene and are being transported to Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital by ambulance in a moderate condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been injured with a weapon in the Hastings suburb of Flaxmere this afternoon. Police were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,20277,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-608117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hawke-s-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608117","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=608117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}