{"id":280899,"date":"2026-02-12T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280899\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:57:11","slug":"car-of-tekanimaeu-arobati-swept-away-in-mahurangi-river-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280899\/","title":{"rendered":"Car of Tekanimaeu Arobati, swept away in Mahurangi River, found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTBHC1_mahurangi1_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Police found the Nissan X-Trail in the Mahurangi River.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice found the Nissan X-Trail in the Mahurangi River.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZ POLICE \/ SUPPLIED\n<\/p>\n<p>The car of a man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/585273\/family-found-body-of-tekanimaeu-arobati-man-swept-away-by-mahurangi-river\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swept away in the Mahurangi River<\/a> north of Auckland last month has been found.<\/p>\n<p>Tekanimaeu Arobati disappeared during severe weather on 21 January.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old&#8217;s body was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/584889\/mahurangi-river-search-body-of-swept-away-driver-found\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found three days later<\/a> in the river.<\/p>\n<p>Now, police have recovered his SUV from the river.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JTBHC1_mahurangi2__jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"613\" alt=\"Police found the Nissan X-Trail in the Mahurangi River.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice found the Nissan X-Trail in the Mahurangi River.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZ POLICE \/ SUPPLIED\n<\/p>\n<p>It was found on Thursday after the police national dive squad was sent in.<\/p>\n<p>Arobati was described as a kind, strong, and straight-talking man who was deeply loved by his family, his brother-in-law Kai Tenanoa earlier told RNZ.<\/p>\n<p>Police said their thoughts were with Arobati&#8217;s family and the wider Kiribati community.<\/p>\n<p>His death was being referred to the Coroner.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police found the Nissan X-Trail in the Mahurangi River. Photo: NZ POLICE \/ SUPPLIED The car of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280900,"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-280899","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\/280899","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=280899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}