Three ambulances were sent to Papamoa Beach just after 12.30am.

Paramedics treated three people and took two of them to Tauranga Hospital.

St John is referring media to police for more details.

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01 Mar: Police are seeking more information about a serious assault in Matangi, in the Waikato

28 Feb: One person's died in a single vehicle crash, in Te Kopuru, south of Northland's Dargaville this morning

27 Feb: A man will appear in Napier District Court today facing a charge of the murder of Rotorua woman Sharlene Smith

27 Feb: It's expected to be months before storm-ravaged highways on the Coromandel Peninsula are fully restored

26 Feb: An IT outage affected radiology departments in Auckland and Northland hospitals this afternoon

26 Feb: Two women will appear in court today - and a man next month - in relation to a reported shooting in Waikato's Te Kauwhata, north of Huntly

25 Feb: A 24-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to a fatal crash on State Highway One south of Taupo

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