A critically wounded man has been moved to Green Lane Hospital in Auckland for specialist treatment as a woman clings precariously to life in what is thought be an attempted murder-suicide.
The man was found bleeding heavily from a chest wound in a house in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank onWednesday after a four-wheel drive vehicle was torched in the front yard and as police were still attending an earlier violent incident near Manurewa, about 15km away.
Two sisters, aged 29 and 25, were found at Manurewa when the eight-year-old son of one of the women arrived home and found both women bleeding heavily from serious head injuries.
The younger woman gave birth to a baby girl after an emergency caesarean section several hours after she was taken to Middlemore Hospital.
However, the condition of the 25-year-old mother deteriorated the day after her daughter was born and her condition today was reported to be unstable and critical.
Detective Senior Sergeant Nigel McGlone said the woman was "teetering" and medical staff could not say if she would live or die. She is an induced coma on the intensive care unit at Auckland Hospital.
The man is described as being in a stable but critical condition. The baby was doing very well and had been taken off support systems, Mr McGlone said.
The injured man is not the father of the baby but is believed to have been in a relationship with another member of the family.
The names of the injured people have yet to be released.
