{"id":225735,"date":"2026-01-09T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225735\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:31:09","slug":"body-found-in-christchurch-red-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225735\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Christchurch red zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LY65L2_copyright_image_284204\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Auckland, New Zealand - December 24, 2020: Close up of a New Zealand police officer's uniform and badge\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating after a body was found in Christchurch&#8217;s red zone.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Dunair Drive in the suburb of Burwood just after 6pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4JV12KY_dunair_drive_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"566\" alt=\"Dunair Drive in Burwood where body found\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>The death is being treated as unexplained.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons are in place between Brooker Ave and New Brighton Road.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public can expect to see a police presence as the scene is investigated, a spokesperson said.<\/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: 123RF Police are investigating after a body was found in Christchurch&#8217;s red zone. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48428,"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-225735","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\/225735","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=225735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}