{"id":780107,"date":"2026-07-05T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780107\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:15:09","slug":"nsw-police-investigating-after-mans-body-pulled-from-murray-river-at-barooga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780107\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Police investigating after man&#8217;s body pulled from Murray River at Barooga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered in the Murray River on the New South Wales-Victoria border this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Emergency services were called to River Road, Barooga, about 266 kilometres north-east of Melbourne, shortly after 8:15am after reports of a body in the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">State Emergency Service crews and NSW Police attended the scene with the man&#8217;s body recovered about two hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">NSW Police have established a crime scene and are investigating the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man is yet to be formally identified and police said a report would be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police are urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was discovered in the Murray River on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,369359,1293,30765,1300,5315,44,4277,7743,33608],"class_list":["post-780107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barooga","tag-body","tag-coroner","tag-death","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-river","tag-ses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780107","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=780107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}