{"id":252567,"date":"2026-01-26T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:51:12","slug":"mahurangi-river-death-police-name-man-swept-away-near-warkworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252567\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahurangi River death: Police name man swept away near Warkworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The man\u2019s wife earlier said her husband was a fisherman back home in Kiribati. They had moved to New Zealand in 2023 with their four children, RNZ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/search-continues-for-driver-swept-away-trying-to-cross-mahurangi-river\/4C4HXGSGZBF67ACUCFBO47FJRQ\/?ref=readmore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/search-continues-for-driver-swept-away-trying-to-cross-mahurangi-river\/4C4HXGSGZBF67ACUCFBO47FJRQ\/?ref=readmore\" target=\"_blank\">reported on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The woman, who did not want to be named, said her husband and her nephew \u2013 who had just moved to New Zealand in December \u2013 were taking their usual route to work in Warkworth early morning when they were swept away by water on Falls Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The woman said both had fallen into the water with the vehicle, and her husband had pushed her nephew so he could grab on to a branch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">However, her husband could not get back to land himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen [the nephew] held on the branch, he called, \u2018Uncle, please come and grab on my leg and both go to the land\u2019,\u201d RNZ reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThen [my] husband tried to grab, but then he knows that he\u2019s so heavy, because he\u2019s bigger than his nephew. I think like, when he saw his nephew like that, he didn\u2019t want to pull him back, so he untied his hand and says \u2018Go on, go and find life, while I\u2019m going to swim this way and find another branch\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"AaByrilogD\" style=\"display:none\">The death has been referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man\u2019s wife earlier said her husband was a fisherman back home in Kiribati. They had moved to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4995,690,634,1874,305,68199,118936,5158,13617,10136,3180,111,43,139,69,675,6739,19875,111476],"class_list":["post-252567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-away","tag-dead","tag-death","tag-found","tag-have","tag-january","tag-mahurangi","tag-man","tag-name","tag-named","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-river","tag-swept","tag-warkworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252567","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=252567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}