(file image) Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller
Police are investigating after a woman says she was shot in her car in Ōpōtiki, Bay of Plenty.
Police said they were called at 2.45pm on Saturday, after a woman arrived at the Ōpōtiki Ambulance Station with a gunshot wound.
The woman told police she had been injured when her car was shot at.
She was taken to Whakatāne Hospital in a serious condition.
Police said they conducted an operation in Tauranga on Monday morning in relation to the shooting and seized a vehicle of interest.
There has been a recent spate of shootings in Ōpōtiki, which police say are gang related.
Police were unable to confirm if this latest incident was also gang related but said their inquiries were ongoing.