{"id":599798,"date":"2026-04-11T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599798\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:53:29","slug":"nt-police-no-longer-calling-for-information-on-death-of-man-found-near-road-in-tennant-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599798\/","title":{"rendered":"NT police no longer calling for information on death of man found near road in Tennant Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Northern Territory police have said they are no longer calling for information about a man who was found dead near a roadway in the remote town of Tennant Creek overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement earlier this morning, NT police said that about 9:30pm yesterday, police on patrol in Tennant Creek spotted a man lying on the ground near the roadway on Staunton Street, near Kargaru Oval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Officers immediately conducted a welfare check and, after determining the man was not breathing and had no pulse, they commenced CPR,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said St John Ambulance were called to the scene and continued resuscitation efforts, but were unable to revive the man and declared him deceased about 10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The statement said a crime scene had been established and &#8220;investigations are ongoing&#8221;, with &#8220;no obvious signs of injury&#8221; to the deceased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This afternoon, an NT police spokesperson provided an update, stating the incident was not being treated as suspicious and that the 45-year-old man&#8217;s next of kin had been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Territory police have said they are no longer calling for information about a man who was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,254800,292437,292435,44,1098,292436,17189,1158,86778,114168,210811],"class_list":["post-599798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-death-investigation","tag-kargaru-oval","tag-man-found-dead-in-tennant-creek","tag-news","tag-nt","tag-nt-death","tag-nt-police","tag-police","tag-remote-nt","tag-tennant-creek","tag-tennant-creek-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599798","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=599798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}