{"id":589274,"date":"2026-04-06T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:38:12","slug":"body-of-man-65-swept-away-in-floods-in-outback-south-australia-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589274\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of man, 65, swept away in floods in outback South Australia found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The body of a man swept away in floods in South Australia has been found.<\/p>\n<p>Tony, whose second name has not been released, was swept into the water in the \ufeffstate&#8217;s far north on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old was last seen at about 12.30pm on Cordillo Downs Road, Innamincka.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/1edcc072-c5a6-4eeb-91c9-7d9786e7ca78.png\"   alt=\"Tony, whose second name has not been released, was swept into water in the &#xFEFF;state's far north on Saturday.\"\/>Tony, whose second name has not been released, was swept into water in the \ufeffstate&#8217;s far north on Saturday. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more than 800km from Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>The Cooper Creek river system is flooded with fast\u2011moving water, submerged hazards and restricted visibility, police say<\/p>\n<p>PolAir, Water Operations officers, local police patrols and SES personnel launched a search and his body was found today.<\/p>\n<p>Police are preparing a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a man swept away in floods in South Australia has been found. Tony, whose second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-589274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589274","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=589274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}