NEW Zealand’s prime minister had to apologise for joking he would have been eaten if he attended a dinner with a Maori tribe who were once cannibals.

New Zealand’s prime minister had to apologise today for joking that he would have been eaten if he attended a dinner with a Maori tribe who were once cannibals.

ARMED police stormed into this quiet village at dawn, threw up roadblocks, shot out truck tyres and forced families out of their homes at gunpoint.