A woman has been stabbed with a screwdriver while waiting for her partner to do the shopping at Countdown LynnMall in West Auckland.

Her uncle, Kawiti Kawiti, told the Herald she had been targeted by a person who had previously made threats against her.

”He shouldn’t have done that.”

It’s understood the woman is a well-known local identity. The attack reportedly took place on the road near a park.

Kawiti said his niece was waiting for her partner who was inside the nearby supermarket getting lunch.  While she sat in the sun in a nearby reserve her attacker pulled up in a car and a heated argument broke out.

She ended up suffering stab wounds after her attacker turned on her with a screwdriver.

Kawiti said he knew her attacker but would not reveal his identity. He fled the scene in a vehicle, Kawiti said.

Police confirmed they responded to an emergency incident near LynnMall in West Auckland that left one woman injured.

A large police presence was at the scene and an area of the park on Great North Rd was cordoned off before being reopened. Ambulances were at the scene before the woman was transported to Auckland City Hospital.

An officer investigating the assault was seen taking a swab from the road.

The scene where a woman was stabbed with a screwdriver near New Lynn's LynnMall. Photo / NZME

“Police were called to a disorder incident on Great North Rd in New Lynn about 1.30pm,” police said in a statement.

A woman was injured and transported to hospital in a serious condition.

“A man is custody and there is no ongoing threat to the public.”

The incident took place on Great North Rd itself between Veronica St and Memorial Drive.

The cordoned off scene where a woman was stabbed in a park outside LynnMall. Photo / NZME

Lynn Mall was the scene of a graphic knife attack in September last year.

On September 3, Isis-inspired terrorist Ahamed Samsudeen stabbed six shoppers at New Lynn Countdown supermarket before being shot dead by police.

At the time, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Samsudeen was under “constant police surveillance”.

The man was a known threat risk since 2016 and had been previously arrested for allegedly planning a “lone wolf” knife attack.

Police were following the man after he left home and walked into the New Lynn Countdown - before he took a knife from a shelf, and carried out the attack.

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said the man was “closely watched by surveillance teams and a strategic tactical team” as he travelled from his home in Glen Eden to Countdown in New Lynn.

He was shot and killed by police within 60 seconds of picking up the knife and starting the attack.