After hours of tense waiting, parents were reunited with their children amid a manhunt in Palmerston North. Children reunited with parents as manhunt continuesDavid Unwin/ Stuff.co.nz Police on a manhunt close off Cloverlea area leaving residents stranded. Somerset Crescent School and Cloverlea School, which are both primary schools, went into lockdown as a precautionary measure earlier in the afternoon. About 200 parents and friends were waiting at the whanau centre to collect children. Children from Cloverlea School and Cloverlea Kindergarten were later bused out to the Highbury Whanau Centre, where police set up the briefing centre, and parents could pick them up there, police said.

Source: Stuff June 30, 2016 01:09 UTC