{"id":150423,"date":"2025-11-24T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150423\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:21:08","slug":"lake-rua-christchurch-body-found-after-man-went-missing-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150423\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Rua, Christchurch: Body found after man went missing in the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Police were notified at around 6:50pm yesterday that a man had gone missing at the lake near Johns Rd and the city\u2019s airport. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The police national dive squad was called in for the search, which was watched from afar by loved ones.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The police national dive squad was called in for the search, which was watched from afar by loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Search and rescue teams were back in the area this morning, with the assistance of police national dive squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Loved ones of the missing man gathered to watch the search efforts this morning. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Search and rescue teams were back looking for the man this morning.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Search and rescue teams were back looking for the man this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Father-of-three Varun Chand drowned on Christmas Day 2022 on neighbouring Lake Roto Kohatu when canoeing with his 7-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">After the canoe tipped over, Chand\u2019s daughter, who was wearing a life jcket, was rescued, but Chand did not resurface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were notified at around 6:50pm yesterday that a man had gone missing at the lake near Johns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,8843,7800,4487,1874,305,78,13207,685,5158,6501,111,43,139,2551,69,22056,675,100584,223,1961,376,2201],"class_list":["post-150423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-believed","tag-body","tag-christchurch","tag-found","tag-have","tag-in","tag-lake","tag-last","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-outskirts","tag-police","tag-rua","tag-the","tag-this","tag-water","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}