{"id":226173,"date":"2026-01-10T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:32:09","slug":"two-dead-one-missing-in-water-incidents-across-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226173\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, one missing in water incidents across New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4KM2XYZ_akaroa_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Akaroa\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAkaroa is a town located south-east of Christchurch.<br \/>\nPhoto: supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died in the water on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services in the Bay of Plenty were called to an area off Poripori Road in Lower Kaimai, where a person had been taken out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>CPR was carried out, but they couldn&#8217;t be revived.<\/p>\n<p>In the South Island, the Akaroa harbourmaster pulled a person from the water, but they also died.<\/p>\n<p>Drummond Wharf was cordoned off, while emergency services worked at the scene and the death will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a swimmer is missing in the Waikato River.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were called to the area near Graham Island at Hamilton at about 3,30pm Saturday, after reports of a struggling swimmer being swept downstream.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were searching the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Akaroa is a town located south-east of Christchurch. Photo: supplied Two people have died in the water on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226174,"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":{"0":"post-226173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226173","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=226173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}