{"id":247024,"date":"2026-01-23T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247024\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:03:09","slug":"grandmother-and-grandchild-confirmed-as-pair-killed-in-papamoa-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247024\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother and grandchild confirmed as pair killed in P\u0101p\u0101moa landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Welcome<\/p>\n

\nWelcome Bay Road.
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Jamie Troughton\n<\/p>\n

Two people killed when a landslide hit a house in P\u0101p\u0101moa were a grandmother and a grandchild, RNZ understands.<\/p>\n

Two bodies were recovered by police<\/a> at the home on Welcome Bay Road on Thursday..<\/p>\n

Police earlier said two people were unaccounted for after a slip came down towards properties on the road.<\/p>\n

Another person at the property had been seriously injured.<\/p>\n

At least one house on Welcome Bay Rd suffered damage in the early-morning slip, with others also evacuated.<\/p>\n

Police said they were working to support the pair’s loved ones, and the deaths would be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n

Emergency Management Minster Mark Mitchell confirmed the news during an interview with Australian news outlet ABC.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, multiple people remain unaccounted for at a Mt Maunganui campsite<\/a>, after a large slip came down on campervans and a shower block just after 9.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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":"Welcome Bay Road. Photo: RNZ \/ Jamie Troughton Two people killed when a landslide hit a house in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247025,"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-247024","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\/247024","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=247024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}