{"id":13817,"date":"2025-06-03T05:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2025-06-03T05:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:45:41","slug":"ram-attack-leaves-person-with-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13817","title":{"rendered":"Ram attack leaves person with serious injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person has suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a ram in the lower North Island.<\/p>\n

Police were called to an animal attack at about 2.15pm on Monday on Makino Road, a rural road in Manawat\u016b, north of Feilding.<\/p>\n

“The victim has sustained serious injuries and will be transported by ambulance to Hospital. The animal has been destroyed.”<\/p>\n

An officer later told RNZ the animal was a ram.<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John confirmed crews responded to a ‘farm incident’ in Halcombe with one ambulance, one rapid response unit, and one manager.<\/p>\n

A St John spokesperson said one person in a serious condition was treated and transported to Palmerston North Hospital.<\/p>\n

\"Alfred<\/p>\n

Alfred Helge Hansen and Gaye Hansen were killed by a rogue ram at their West Auckland property last year.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ NZ Herald<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The attack comes just over a year after the\u00a0deaths of Helge and Gaye Hansen<\/a>, who were found dead on their four-hectare lifestyle property after a\u00a0rogue ram entered their paddock and killed them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, an animal behaviour researcher told RNZ\u00a0ram attacks were rare<\/a>, but the injuries inflicted could be similar to being hit by a car.<\/p>\n

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RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One person has suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a ram in the lower North Island. Police were called to an animal attack at about 2.15pm on Monday on Makino Road, a rural road in Manawat\u016b, north of Feilding. “The victim has sustained serious injuries and will be transported by ambulance to Hospital. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13819,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/13819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}