• Former NZ international Maia Jackson says incident was ‘pretty scary’
  • Tournament hosts New Zealand to play Norway at Eden Park
  • Auckland shooting: live updates

The first match of the Women’s World Cup will go ahead as planned after members of the New Zealand and Norway teams, who are to open the tournament at Eden Park on Thursday night, were unaffected by a shooting in Auckland earlier in the day.

Norway are one of a number of teams, including the US, Italy and the Philippines, based in hotels close to the site of the shooting in the city centre, which left three people including the gunman dead and six injured.

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