A person has died after becoming trapped in a potato harvester near Pukekohe.
The accident happened at a Settlement Rd, near Puni, shortly before 1pm today.
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A tractor and attached harvesting machine are sitting in a large field of potatoes beside Settlement Rd, surrounded by police cars, fire engines and an ambulance.
A Settlement Rd resident told the Herald he saw firefighters lying down looking up underneath the harvesting machine when he drove by earlier.