{"id":903153,"date":"2026-09-24T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903153\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:24:11","slug":"katherine-news-young-boy-dies-after-climbing-into-drainpipe-in-nt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/903153\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine news: Young boy dies after climbing into drainpipe in NT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-year-old boy has drowned after climbing into a drainpipe at a popular swimming spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/nt\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Territory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boy entered the pipe at Katherine Low Level around 5.15pm on Tuesday and did not come back out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NT Police stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f240d7aa4042f273716af4196b9b1ce3c0efd94e.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Northern Territory Police Force is investigating the crash.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>A search continued into the night before divers found the boy about 1.45am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>His family was at Katherine Low Level at the time and is being supported following his death.<\/p>\n<p>Commander Neil Hayes described the boy\u2019s death as \u201can incredibly tragic incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the boy\u2019s family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nine-year-old boy has drowned after climbing into a drainpipe at a popular swimming spot in the Northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-903153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903153","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=903153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}