A prank call about someone being shot and badly injured led to multiple schools in Taupō going into lockdown. Emergency services were called at 12.50pm on Thursday after being told a person had been shot and was badly injured, a police spokeswoman said. She said schools in the area did go into lockdown for a time and police have since made reassurance visits to those schools. DAVID WALKER/STUFF Multiple schools in Taupō went into lockdown after someone reported a person had been shot and badly injured, but the information was untrue. "This has been a false alarm, the police have been on site and the lockdown lifted."

Source: Stuff February 13, 2020 00:56 UTC