Dairy owner stabbed in robbery

Police chase a suspect following a stabbing at a Latham Street Diary in Napier today. Photo / NZPA

Napier police are hunting a man after a dairy owner was stabbed during a robbery this morning.

The Latham Street dairy was robbed about 11am, Napier police said.

They would not confirm that a person had been stabbed but said a knife may have been involved.

A photographer at the scene told NZPA the dairy owner was taken away by an ambulance and a trail of blood was visible in the dairy.

Police were searching for a "skinny" Maori man wearing dark pants, a blue hoodie with white writing on the sleeves and white shoes.

- NZPA