{"id":226211,"date":"2026-01-10T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:06:08","slug":"two-dead-one-missing-in-water-incidents-across-new-zealand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226211\/","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":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-226211","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\/226211","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=226211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226211\/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=226211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}