One person has been shot in the leg in a suspected hunting accident in a remote rural area north of Whanganui.
Emergency services, including armed police, rushed to Morikau Road near Ranana earlier today following reports of the shooting.
鈥淧olice responded to an address in Ranana after a person received a gunshot wound to their leg while hunting and had since been transported to the address from the scene nearby, around 11.40am,鈥 police said in a statement.
鈥淧olice responded armed as a precaution.鈥
The injured person has since been taken to hospital.
鈥淚nquiries into the circumstances of the incident are ongoing.鈥
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