The occupants of a campervan and a car parked in Bay of Plenty rest areas were attacked within three hours early yesterday.
A British tourist and his son, 12, were attacked by four men with an iron bar and a tomahawk in the Athenree Gorge near Waihi. The father is in Tauranga Hospital with head injuries.
About 3.50am a Wellington man sleeping in his car in a rest area between Paengaroa and Okere Falls was robbed. Four men face several charges.
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