Police: Armed woman points gun at officers, takes patrol car, crashes it
The woman was arrested a short distance away from the scene.
The woman was arrested a short distance away from the scene.
A post-mortem will be undertaken on the body tomorrow.
Police called about 2.30pm after someone failed to return to their group.
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Kana Hirose, 50, died on December 24 after a freak fall on the isolated Great Taste trail.
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New footage has emerged from inside the riot as cops clashed with drunken youths.
Police and ambulance services are responding to the incident at Milford Beach.
Motorists have been advised to delay their journey or take another route.
Emergency services were alerted earlier this morning.
The woman was pulled from the water by locals but could not be revived.
Police are seeking any witnesses who were in Broadway Ave at the time of the fight.
Emergency services have rushed to the scene.
Heart attacks, assaults, overdoses, crashes, suicides, strokes - they hear them all.
Police expect "a degree of mischief" but hope people make the right choices.
The Serious Crash Unit has been notified.
Emergency services were called to the festival after he suffered a medical event.
The deaths bring the Christmas/New Year holiday road toll to six.
The crash happened near Gordonton about 11am today.
Onlookers says the boat was ablaze within minutes.
Emergency services are attending crashes in Triangle Rd, Massey, and Henderson Valley Rd.
Two people were trapped in their vehicles and cut free by firefighters.
Port and three national agencies involved in fire investigations
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Emergency services were called to the scene about 1pm today.
"It's tragic ... These are people that won't be there for Christmas."
Scene of crash blessed today as investigators attempt to piece together tragedy.
Devastated friends of couple killed have gathered at family home.