{"id":265351,"date":"2026-02-03T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:22:13","slug":"police-launch-investigation-after-body-found-at-worksite-in-hawkes-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265351\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch investigation after body found at worksite in Hawke&#8217;s Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LDWYGN_MicrosoftTeams_image_55_png\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police in Wellington. Generic image\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have launched an investigation after the discovery of a body at a worksite in Hawke&#8217;s Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the property on Taihape Road in Omahu, near Hastings, at 9.10am on Tuesday &#8211; where cordons remain.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it was unclear how the person came to be there, and how they died, and were treating the death as unexplained.<\/p>\n<p>They said a scene examination and post-mortem would be carried out as they worked to identify the person and understand the circumstances surrounding their death.<\/p>\n<p>Police said anyone with information could get in touch by calling Crime Stoppers or 105, quoting reference number 260203\/9739.<\/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":"Photo: RNZ \/ Angus Dreaver Police have launched an investigation after the discovery of a body at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2827,"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-265351","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\/265351","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=265351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}