Auckland man says attacker demanded his car keys with a knife

An Auckland man says he was barely injured when a man pulled a knife on him in a car park in the city center.

Hobson Street resident Daljit Singh rents a parking space in an apartment building and said earlier today that he was in the parking lot when a man demanded he hand over his car keys.

He refused, saying the man then tried to injure him and set off several fire alarms in an attempt to flee.

“There was a man, he approached me and asked me [for] my car keys and my phone.

“When I [asked] him what’s the matter … he threw something like a dagger at me and I was just saved by inches.

Four fire trucks and three police cars arrived on the scene.

An RNZ reporter on scene witnessed a man being apprehended by police.

Police said officers were alerted to reports of a person carrying a weapon in a building on Hobson Street around 2:30pm.

“FENZ was responding to fire alarms going off in the building when they found a person with a weapon,” police said in a statement.

“Police have found and taken into custody a man. The investigation continues.”