Please attribute to Detective Inspector Shaun Vickers, Counties Manukau CIB:

Police are responding to an unfolding serious incident in Wattle Downs this afternoon.

At about 1.45pm, emergency services responded to reports of a woman unresponsive at an address on Gambare Place.

Sadly, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

During a search of the property Police have located a man who was also pronounced deceased.

Cordons are in place at Mahia Road and schools in the immediate area were advised to lockdown.