An elderly woman on a dialysis machine has been killed in a home invasion in Kaikohe overnight.
Residents of the small Northland town of Kaikohe today woke to news the woman, who was well known in the community, had died after a struggle with other people living at the house and an intruder.
Police have launched a homicide investigation but no arrests have yet been made.
Emma Stanford is in Northland.
