{"id":369213,"date":"2026-04-08T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:31:08","slug":"person-dies-after-being-found-critically-injured-at-papanui-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369213\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being found critically injured at Papanui property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Apr, 2026 06:26 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\">Police are investigating a sudden, unexplained death at an address in Papanui, Christchurch, on Wednesday. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being found in a critical condition in a Christchurch suburb this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to a property on Main North Rd, Papanui, about 2.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Acting Senior Sergeant Dougall Struthers said the person died at the scene despite efforts of emergency services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The sudden death<br \/>\n         is being treated as unexplained and officers were working to establish what occurred, Struthers said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Apr, 2026 06:26 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,11730,1975,682,4487,1239,11728,12939,6179,7126,1874,10933,111,43,139,69,107941,4056,814,17294,1961],"class_list":{"0":"post-369213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-afternoon","10":"tag-at","11":"tag-being","12":"tag-christchurch","13":"tag-condition","14":"tag-critical","15":"tag-critically","16":"tag-died","17":"tag-dies","18":"tag-found","19":"tag-injured","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-papanui","25":"tag-person","26":"tag-property","27":"tag-suburb","28":"tag-this"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369213","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=369213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}