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Police were reportedly called to a firearms incident near the intersection of Tait Drive and Lamason St in Napier on Monday afternoon. (File photo)
Armed police are searching for a person wanted in relation to a Napier shooting in which one person was seriously injured.
Police were called about 1.15pm on Monday in relation to a firearms incident near the intersection of Tait Drive and Lamason St in the Napier suburb of Greenmeadows, a spokesperson confirmed.
One person is reported to have suffered a leg injury. Police are searching for another person was who at the scene.
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Armed staff are in the area as a precaution, and the spokesperson said there was no information to suggest a risk to the wider public.
A St John spokesperson said the ambulance service was called to Tait Drive about 1.16pm and took one person to Hawke’s Bay Hospital in a serious condition.
Pastor Bruce Mason, of the Napier Seventh Day Adventist Church which is located on the same corner, said there was no-one at the church at the time of the shooting and he was not aware of the incident.
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