{"id":733462,"date":"2026-06-13T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733462\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:34:09","slug":"search-underway-for-missing-7yo-girl-after-fathers-body-found-in-inner-west-sydney-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733462\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for missing 7yo girl after father&#8217;s body found in inner west Sydney bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A desperate search is underway for a missing girl after a man&#8217;s body was found near a boat drifting in a bay in Sydney&#8217;s inner west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police said the girl, aged seven, was the man&#8217;s daughter and confirmed she had been in the boat with her father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Our priority right now is to locate the seven-year-old girl,&#8221; Superintendent Christine McDonald said in an update.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;There is a major search operation underway and we are using all our resources from the marine area command, police divers [and] police aviation command in an attempt to locate the little girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The pair are from the Westmead area, and while they are yet to be formally identified, police said the girl&#8217;s mother had been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Just before 11:45am, emergency services were called to Bayview Park, on Burwood Road in Concord, after a passer-by, who was on a boat at the time, saw a man in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A desperate search is underway for a missing girl after a man&#8217;s body was found near a boat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,128297,48,1300,36506,44,4277,7452,670,121958],"class_list":["post-733462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-concord","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-emergency","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-search","tag-sydney","tag-sydneys-inner-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733462","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=733462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}