Patrons lucky to avoid injury after shots fired into Hastings bar early this morning

2:19 pm on 13 November 2022

A gun was fired from what is thought to be a passing car into a Hastings bar at about 1.40am today. Photo:

Patrons at a Hastings bar narrowly avoided being shot, when a gun was fired into the entrance way.

Detective Sergeant Kate Hyde said police believed it came from a passing car on Karamu Road South about 1.40am this morning.

Some of the shot from the round went into the garden bar area, she said.

"The bar was busy with patrons at the time and it's by pure chance nobody was seriously injured," Hyde said in a statement.