An elderly woman remains in hospital after being assaulted during an incident in the Hawke's Bay.
An 18-year-old man was also being treated for self-inflicted knife wounds, police said
Emergency services were called to a house on Grays Rd just after 7.30am today after a man was seen standing naked in the street, police said.
An off-duty police officer drove past the man a short time later. By the time he had turned his car around, the man had gone back inside the house.
The officer found the man inside with stab wounds to the chest, police said.
A female relative in her 70s was believed to have been assaulted by the man. She was in hospital with moderate head injuries.
The man is in a critical condition in hospital.
Police are conducting scene examination at house, and investigations were continuing.
No-one else was being sought in relation to the incident, police said.
