{"id":370492,"date":"2026-04-09T02:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:33:14","slug":"lake-taupo-auckland-university-engineering-student-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370492\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Taup\u014d: Auckland University engineering student dies after being pulled from water"},"content":{"rendered":"

The loss had reportedly devastated the student\u2019s family, who had lived in New Zealand for two decades before returning to Powai, Mumbai.<\/p>\n

Indian Newslink reported Sriram celebrated his 21st birthday last month and had begun the new academic year at Auckland University five days before the incident. <\/p>\n

Family friend Ms Badrinarayanan told the outlet the loss had taken a toll on Sriram\u2019s parents. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are unable to come to terms with the tragedy. It could take a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to the Rotorua Daily Post, an Auckland University spokesperson confirmed Sriram was one of its second-year engineering students. <\/p>\n

The university was saddened by his tragic death at Lake Taup\u014d, and its thoughts and condolences were with his family and friends.<\/p>\n

Police said the death had been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n

Zoe Blake is a multimedia journalist at the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The loss had reportedly devastated the student\u2019s family, who had lived in New Zealand for two decades before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62507,74,51,682,6179,7126,171628,75,1445,71,8455,42,296,13207,43,1523,26525,9631,17933,1852,40,38,41,39,25728,1528,376,6123,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-370492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-21yearold","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-being","12":"tag-died","13":"tag-dies","14":"tag-easter","15":"tag-engineering","16":"tag-friends","17":"tag-from","18":"tag-getting","19":"tag-headlines","20":"tag-into","21":"tag-lake","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-over","24":"tag-pulled","25":"tag-student","26":"tag-swimming","27":"tag-taup","28":"tag-top-news","29":"tag-top-stories","30":"tag-topnews","31":"tag-topstories","32":"tag-trouble","33":"tag-university","34":"tag-water","35":"tag-while","36":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370492","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=370492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}