{"id":202124,"date":"2025-12-26T02:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202124\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T02:58:05","slug":"body-found-after-helicopter-joins-search-at-piha-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/202124\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found after helicopter joins search at Piha Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LQ8YC8_IMG_0328_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"698\" alt=\"Piha waves, ocean, sea, rough, tide\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPiha Beach, west of Auckland City, is notorious for its challenging conditions for swimmers and surfers (file photo).<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>A body has been found at Piha Beach, after the police helicopter joined a search for a person swept away.<\/p>\n<p>At about 12:30pm on Boxing Day, emergency services were told a person had been washed away by waves, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Police Eagle [helicopter] was deployed to help locate the person,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly they were located and confirmed deceased around 1:20pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The death would be referred to the coroner.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piha Beach, west of Auckland City, is notorious for its challenging conditions for swimmers and surfers (file photo).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-202124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124","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=202124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}