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Police cordon off a housing complex on Ensors Rd, Christchurch, after one person was stabbed and another was robbed.
Armed police are surrounding a home in Christchurch after one person was stabbed and another robbed at knife point.
Police responded to reports of a robbery on Ensors Rd, Waltham, around 4 p.m. Monday.
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One person was threatened with a knife and his phone was taken from him.
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Soon after, police received a second report of an assault at Isabella Place, where a person was stabbed and seriously injured, a police spokeswoman said.
The injured person was taken to Christchurch Hospital, a St John spokesman said.
The police spokeswoman said they were making inquiries to find and arrest the alleged offender.
She declined to say whether the armed police had been called, but Things has seen armed police officers at the Mackenzie Courts housing complex on Ensors Rd, along with several officers in black tactical gear, at least a dozen police vehicles and a unit of police dogs.
The compound had been cordoned off and a person could be heard screaming from inside.
A bystander said Things They did not believe that the person lived in the house, but instead ran there after seeing the police.
It is not known if there is anyone else in the house.
A video previously posted on social media showed police trying to interact with a man carrying a knife.
One person wrote: “I was running at full speed, the police chased. He got into their apartment before they could get close enough. Now it is a stalemate. “
