Hunter shot dead near Wanaka
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Save Police are investigating how a hunter was shot dead near Wanaka. Photo / file
A 23-year-old man has been shot dead in a hunting accident near Wanaka early this morning.
Police were called to a farm property in the Maungawera Valley, just outside the town at about 2.30am.
The man had been rabbit shooting with two friends on farmland, when they spotted a deer
and chased it into a patch of manuka.
In the course of the hunt a shot was fired, hitting the man in the back of the head.
He died at the scene.