"It was a fight between three females and during the fight one of the females has bitten another one's ear and drawn blood. She hasn't bitten it off, but quite badly so she needed some medical attention, a Hawke's Bay District Command Centre spokesman told Stuff.
Later that evening, police were called to an unrelated biting incident at a pub called The Thirsty Whale. Police said a woman jumped on a man fighting her brother and sank her teeth into his neck.
The man lost so much blood he was admitted to hospital in a serious condition, officers added. The woman was arrested and the injured man has now been discharged from hospital, police said.
Thirsty Whale bar owner Chris Sullivan said a bouncer applied pressure to the wound to stop it bleeding until an ambulance arrived.
"We've never seen these people before – they're certainly not locals."
The woman in the bar attack was charged with wounding the man, the police spokesman said. Incredible, another person in the town was bitten in the week after a family row turned violent.
The police spokesman added: "It is a little bit weird."
