{"id":198779,"date":"2025-12-23T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:19:10","slug":"body-recovered-near-thames-believed-to-be-missing-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/198779\/","title":{"rendered":"Body recovered near Thames believed to be missing person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4M2WHME_copyright_image_277088\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Cole Eastham-Farrelly\n<\/p>\n<p>A body has been recovered near Thames on and is believed to be a person that went missing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/582477\/search-underway-after-person-missing-in-water-in-coromandel-peninsula\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coromandel waters two days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Duty Inspector Neil Faulkner said at around 6.10am on Wednesday, police received reports of a body being located on the beach by a member of the public near Thames Coast Road, Kereta.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A formal identification is yet to take place, but police believe it is the man who was reported missing on 22 December, near the Waikawau boat ramp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services had been searching for the man after reports of him getting into difficulties in the water and going missing.<\/p>\n<p>One person had made it safely to shore and reported that a second party was still in the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police expect the death to be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Local iwi have placed also a r\u0101hui on the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Cole Eastham-Farrelly A body has been recovered near Thames on and is believed to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-198779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198779","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=198779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}