Hunt begins after bizarre stabbing

A man is on the run with his two-year-old son after a knife was plunged right through another man's face.

The victim spent most of yesterday with a 15-centimetre blade embedded in his head before Auckland surgeons removed it in a delicate operation.



The knife had gone through the 36-year-old victim from one side of his face to the other.

Police advised the public last night not to approach Vance Paraki Tuheke, 31, who is 1.87 metres (6ft 1in) tall and of solid build. He was believed to be travelling in a 1997 Honda Accord saloon, registered WM7720, with his former partner and their two-year-old son.

During the attack the handle broke off the knife. The blade had entered the victim's face beneath his eye and penetrated the nasal cavity behind his nose. The point of the blade poked out on the other side of his face.