{"id":776534,"date":"2026-07-02T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:36:12","slug":"missing-hamilton-boy-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776534\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Hamilton boy found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 7-year-old boy who went missing at a Hamilton-area conservation area on Canada Day has been found dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A seven-year-old boy who went missing on Canada Day in a Hamilton conservation area has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The child, identified by police as Nathanael Selambi, disappeared Wednesday afternoon at the Binbrook Conservation Area, located at 5050 Harrison Rd., at about 3 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dive teams apart of Peel Regional Police\u2019s Underwater Search and Recovery Unit located the boy\u2019s shortly after 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation into the death is being led by the Hamilton Police Service in conjunction with the Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hamilton police say they do not suspect foul play in the death and are not treating it as suspicious, according to a statement sent to CTV News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur thoughts are with Nathanael\u2019s family, loved ones and everyone affected by this tragic loss,\u201d a Hamilton Police Service spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHamilton Police thank the public, community partners and emergency responders for their assistance and support throughout the search.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-year-old boy who went missing at a Hamilton-area conservation area on Canada Day has been found dead.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-776534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}