A woman has been seriously injured after being shot at in her car in Ōpōtiki on Saturday afternoon.
A police spokesperson said officers were called at 2:45pm after a woman arrived at the Ōpōtiki ambulance station with a gunshot wound.
The woman told police she had been injured when her car was shot at.
She was transported to Whakatāne Hospital in a serious condition and enquiries into the shooting are ongoing, according to police.
A police spokesperson told Newshub officers conducted an operation in Tauranga on Monday morning in relation to the shooting and a vehicle of interest was seized.
The spokesperson confirmed no one has been arrested yet.
Newshub asked if the shooting was gang-related but a police spokesperson said there is no further information to add.
It comes just a week after a man was arrested after allegedly shooting at a house in Ōpōtiki in what police described as a "gang-related" incident.
Police said a 29-year-old man went to a Ōpōtiki property and threatened occupants with a firearm. Later that evening, a vehicle was shot at and stolen before shots were fired at another home the following morning.
Ōpōtiki has been experiencing a spate of gang-related shootings at properties and vehicles recently.
