A 16-year-old female has been charged following an assault at Mt Maunganui’s Bayfair Mall on Friday afternoon.
Onlookers were terrified, with one witness telling RNZ she saw a young woman taken away on a stretcher and heard she had been stabbed.
On Saturday, an appeal for witnesses was issued by the police.
“Police would like to hear from anyone who witnessed and/or filmed the assault at Bayfair Shopping Centre at 4:40pm yesterday, Friday, May 3,” a spokesperson said.
The victim remains in hospital in a stable condition, the spokesperson added.