{"id":318907,"date":"2026-03-08T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318907\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:35:08","slug":"one-person-dies-following-water-related-incident-on-waimakariri-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/318907\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dies following water related incident on Waimakariri River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Mar, 2026 07:40 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to a water related incident on the Waimakariri River. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died following a water-related incident on the Waimakariri River in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Senior Sergeant Stephen McDaniel said emergency services were called to the scene about 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDespite the efforts of emergency services, the person died at the scene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The death will be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Mar, 2026 07:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8126,6179,7126,5504,671,111,43,139,69,90,5270,4056,23940,6739,10037,376,116037],"class_list":["post-318907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-canterbury","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-following","tag-incident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-one","tag-person","tag-related","tag-river","tag-waimakariri","tag-water","tag-waterrelated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318907","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=318907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}