{"id":248847,"date":"2026-01-24T02:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248847\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:16:08","slug":"search-underway-for-man-swept-downstream-in-opotiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248847\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for man swept downstream in \u014cp\u014dtiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4PSGCFF_gallery_image_10990.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA man is mssing after falling into the Waioeka River in \u014cp\u014dtiki.<br \/>\nPhoto:\n<\/p>\n<p>A search is continuing for a missing man who was swept downstream after falling from a boat in the Bay of Plenty town of \u014cp\u014dtiki.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the Waioeka River at about 5.30pm on Friday after reports of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services carried out a search of the area and found the vessel nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Inspector Nicky Cooney, Eastern Bay of Plenty Area Commander, said police resumed the search Saturday morning in the Waioeka River near the junction with Waiata Stream.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were continuing to support the man&#8217;s family.<\/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":"A man is mssing after falling into the Waioeka River in \u014cp\u014dtiki. Photo: A search is continuing for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248848,"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-248847","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\/248847","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=248847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}