A terrified Canadian woman has fled several kilometres on foot after her Australian boyfriend was shot dead in a carjacking in New Zealand.
Armed police are hunting an armed killer, after the Australian's body was found in a stolen campervan in Gordonton, 80km from where the carjacking occurred on the coastal town of Raglan, on the west coast of the country's North Island.
The 33-year-old Australian tourist, who has been identified by The Age as Sean McKinnon from Victoria, was asleep in a campervan at the Te Toto Gorge carpark in Raglan the couple were woken by a stranger banging on the window.
McKinnon's terrified fiancee, a 32-year-old Canadian woman who was also in the van, escaped the attack and ran several kilometres for help in the early hours of this morning.
According to the woman's social media pages, the pair got engaged in December 2017. She had been documenting various parts of their New Zealand holiday, including a visit to the Te Henga Walkway, just 45 minutes away from Auckland.