{"id":1792,"date":"2022-06-27T20:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T08:05:51","slug":"former-fijian-killed-in-christchurch-stabbing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Former Fijian killed in Christchurch stabbing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laisa Maraia Waka, aged in her 50s, was walking along the footpath on Cheyenne St in Sockburn when she was attacked by a man wielding a knife about 4.20pm on Saturday.<\/div>\n
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Former Fijiian was just metres from her home, where she lived with her husband and son.<\/div>\n
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A 37-year-old man appeared via audio visual link in the Christchurch District Court on today charged with her murder.<\/div>\n
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The man was granted interim name suppression, and was remanded in custody until July 15.<\/div>\n
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The case has been referred to the High Court at Christchurch.<\/div>\n
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Waka moved to New Zealand from Fiji several years ago .<\/div>\n
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On Sunday, Canterbury district commander Superintendent John Price described the attack as \u201chorrific, traumatic and random\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The \u201csenseless act\u201d would have an \u201cincredible impact\u201d on the community, he said.<\/div>\n
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Waka had caught a bus home after work. She had walked alone about 300 metres from her bus stop when she was allegedly stabbed.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Residents and paramedics tried to save her life, but she died at the scene.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laisa Maraia Waka, aged in her 50s, was walking along the footpath on Cheyenne St in Sockburn when she was attacked by a man wielding a knife about 4.20pm on Saturday. Former Fijiian was just metres from her home, where she lived with her husband and son. A 37-year-old man appeared via audio visual link […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1794,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}