A person is in hospital with serious injuries after a late-night attack in a South Auckland garage. 

Police cordoned an area outside a garage on Marumaru Lane last night after the attack, which a neighbour described to the Herald as a stabbing. 

The short cul-de-sac, lined with townhouses, is off Russell Rd, close to Homai Station. 

The people who lived in the house had moved in just weeks ago and had young children, the neighbour said. 

The woman, who asked not to be named, said she saw a “bunch of people” gathered near the garage. Later, while washing the dishes, she heard “a lot of kerfuffle and saw lights, and then I saw that there were lots of police outside”. 

Another neighbour later told her that a car had driven up, someone had stabbed the man in the garage, and the vehicle then drove away. . 

The woman, who was home alone, said the incident was “quite scary”. 

She said she had earlier felt uneasy seeing people “roaming outside”, wondering if they were trying to break into her house, but added: “I’ve had to live here for the last year, so I just brushed it off because it’s never anything.” 

People were "roaming around" a garage on Marumaru Lane before a car arrived and a person was stabbed, a neighbour says. Photo / Hayden Woodward 

Police had since left the scene, and no guard remained. . 

“Whoever did the stabbing or whatever [was] already out of here, so I don’t think that there really was much of a threat,” the neighbour said. The street had otherwise been quiet and trouble-free. 

She said residents were from “all different cultures” and usually got along well, and that the occupants of a nearby house with gang affiliations had recently moved out. 

Hato Hone St John confirmed that an ambulance and an operations manager were called to Marumaru Lane at 8.42pm, and that one person was taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition. 

Police have been approached for comment.