{"id":338422,"date":"2026-03-20T02:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T02:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T02:21:08","slug":"hastings-police-investigate-after-mans-body-found-at-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338422\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings: Police investigate after man\u2019s body found at construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>20 Mar, 2026 12:12 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\">The man&#8217;s body was found at the Omahu Rd construction site on Wednesday evening. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The death of a man whose body was found at a Hastings construction site is being treated as unexplained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The body of the man, who was not an employee at the Omahu Rd site, was found on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Acting Detective Senior Sergeant Karli Whiu said work was underway to<br \/>\n         formally identify the man.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Police asked anyone with information to contact 105 and quote the file number 260319\/6453.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LolVegRJp\" style=\"display:none\">Information could also be provided anonymously via Crime Stoppers on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 20 Mar, 2026 12:12 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,682,7800,1568,634,1874,5194,42,676,16122,43,675,1857,40,38,41,39,23505,23504,17454],"class_list":["post-338422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-at","tag-being","tag-body","tag-construction","tag-death","tag-found","tag-hastings","tag-headlines","tag-investigate","tag-mans","tag-news","tag-police","tag-site","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-treated","tag-unexplained","tag-whose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338422","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=338422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}