{"id":588580,"date":"2026-04-06T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:38:09","slug":"man-found-dead-after-crossing-floodwaters-on-foot-in-sas-far-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588580\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found dead after crossing floodwaters on foot in SA’s far north"},"content":{"rendered":"

A land, air and water search has ended after a missing man was found dead in South Australia’s remote far north.<\/p>\n

Tony Aspden, 65, was located this morning after being missing since Easter Saturday.<\/p>\n

Police said his body was found around 10.30am local time.<\/p>\n

Mr Aspden was last seen on Easter Saturday in Innamincka, in the state’s north-east, while crossing the closed Cordillo Downs Road on foot, when he was swept into flood waters.<\/p>\n

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A SAAS helicopter has been deployed to search for the missing man. (Supplied: Wrightsair)<\/p>\n

Polair, water operations, South Australia Police and local SES members assisted in the search, along with family, residents and volunteers.<\/p>\n

Mr Aspden’s family travelled from Queensland to help the search.<\/p>\n

Before his body was found, granddaughter Maddy Calaby said the family were asking for help from locals.<\/p>\n

“We appreciate the search from the SES and local police, but the search can’t be over until my poppy is brought home,” Ms Calaby said.<\/p>\n

“[A]live or passed he deserves to be home with us.”<\/p>\n

Innamincka is located approximately 1,065 kilometres by road from Adelaide and 40km from the Queensland border.<\/p>\n

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Aerial view of the town of Innamicka. (Supplied: Wrightsair)<\/p>\n

The Cooper Creek system near Innamincka remains in flood.<\/p>\n

Police said fast\u2011moving water had submerged hazards and restricted visibility.<\/p>\n

They said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding Mr Aspden’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A report is being prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A land, air and water search has ended after a missing man was found dead in South Australia’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,35216,210677,287656,287653,287657,11554,45318,44,1158,36767,287654,6483,287655],"class_list":["post-588580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-flood","tag-floodwaters","tag-have-they-found-tony-sa","tag-innamicka","tag-innamicka-man-lost","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-police","tag-sa","tag-south-australia-msising","tag-tony","tag-where-is-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}