A teenage boy has died following a combat close to the Dunedin Central police station this afternoon.
The 16-year-old was on the bottom being attended to by ambulance workers and police shortly after 3pm on Nice King St.
He was later transported to the hospital in a critical situation and died this night, police confirmed in a press release shortly after 8pm.
“That is an extremely tragic state of affairs for all concerned and we’re working to assist the sufferer’s household, who’re understandably distraught on the sudden and violent lack of their cherished one,” Detective Senior Sergeant Kallum Croudis.
“We’re conscious that individuals within the space across the bus hub on Nice King Road might have photographs or video footage of the incident.”
A teenage male was taken into custody instantly following the incident and can seem in court docket tomorrow.
Police ask that anybody with photographs or movies, together with anybody who witnessed the incident unfold, contact Dunedin Police through 105, quoting file quantity 240523/3321.
A gaggle of younger individuals had been on the scene chatting with police. Some had been in tears.
A witness advised the Herald they noticed a combat and was later advised that somebody had been stabbed.
The incident occurred on the Dunedin bus hub, the place lots of of college pupils had been gathered.
Teams of individuals have been taken into the police station. Youths have been heard talking a couple of video of the incident circulating on-line.
A spokesperson for Hato Hone St John stated they had been notified at 3.08pm as we speak, responding with one ambulance and one supervisor.
Every other data needed to come from police, they stated.
Battle on the Dunedin bus hub
Right this moment’s incident is the newest in a string of assaults on the Dunedin bus hub because it opened in 2019.
In 2022, a Dunedin man was arrested after he attacked a pedestrian and punched an 83-year-old man within the face outdoors the central Dunedin police station.
The 45-year-old pushed a 63-year-old man into the road of the Nice King St bus hub on October 26, 2022, earlier than straddling the sufferer and repeatedly punching him within the head, in addition to inflicting kicks to the torso.
When an 83-year-old bystander tried to intervene the offender punched him within the head as effectively.
In November final 12 months, a person was punched and kicked by a drunk in a racially motivated assault on the bus hub.
Ben Tomsett is a Multimedia Journalist for the New Zealand Herald, primarily based in Dunedin.
