Body found outside hospital

Police are investigating whether the discovery of a woman's body outside a Matamata hospital is linked to an earlier abduction and assault in Tauranga and the later arrest of a couple.

The body of a young woman was discovered by security staff outside Pohlen Hospital on Rawhiti Ave in Matamata about 4am, police said.

She had suffered injuries that appeared to have contributed to her death, which is being treated as suspicious.

About an hour earlier, man driving a vehicle on State Highway 29 Kaimai Ranges was abducted by a man and a woman.

He was assaulted but managed to escape from the offenders' vehicle.

He was currently receiving medical treatment, police said.

A man and a woman were arrested in South Auckland for being unlawfully on a property and are in custody.

Police in Waikato and Bay of Plenty were liaising to establish if there were links between the events.

 

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