{"id":645156,"date":"2026-05-02T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:30:09","slug":"body-found-after-man-goes-missing-swimming-at-rapid-creek-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645156\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after man goes missing swimming at Rapid Creek Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indigenous man who vanished while swimming in a Darwin creek has been found dead, sparking a police investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who is yet to be formally identified, was swimming at a beach near Rapid Creek last night and was seen by locals before he went missing. <\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue officers along with NT emergency services searched for the man after he had gone missing from the waters. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the public assisted officers in the search operation, and the body was found on Friday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Police say investigations into the death are ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>They have urged members of the public to contact police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 with any information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indigenous man who vanished while swimming in a Darwin creek has been found dead, sparking a police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,689,152443,312160,44,187436,8867,677,17728,312161,312162,10580,148042,312159],"class_list":["post-645156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-holiday-season","tag-indigenous-man","tag-news","tag-newswire-news","tag-northern-territory","tag-oceania","tag-police-investigation","tag-preventible-road-deaths","tag-rescue-officers","tag-road-deaths","tag-search-operation","tag-tragic-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645156","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=645156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}