Please attribute to Detective Inspector Karen Bright, Counties Manukau Police:
Police have launched a homicide investigation after a man died at Middlemore Hospital this morning.
He arrived at hospital around 6am with critical injuries and sadly died a short time later.
Police are in the very early stages of our investigation and are working to establish the circumstances surrounding the man¡¯s death which remain unclear at this time.
We have a scene examination underway at the velodrome in Manukau.
Formal identification procedures are underway and we are working to ensure the man¡¯s family is provided with Victim Support at this difficult time.
There is no further information available at this early stage.?
ENDS
Shelley Nahr/51½ÖÉä