Jim Antcliff, the "whangai" adoptive father of the armed man, told the Herald he been in contact with Kovaleski until this afternoon. A police spokeswoman confirmed that all children from Cloverlea Primary School and Cloverlea Kindergarten had been safely evacuated by bus. By Nicole Barratt, Alecia RousseauThe man at the centre of the Palmerston North manhunt has been named by his father as Caleb Kovaleski. Having been in lockdown, at around 4.50pm children at Cloverlea School and Cloverlea Kindergarten were loaded on to two white coaches driven by police. Loud bangs were heard in Palmerston North this afternoon when armed police stormed a house as they searched for the fleeing offender.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 30, 2016 09:09 UTC