{"id":417332,"date":"2026-05-08T03:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417332\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:39:18","slug":"west-coast-death-body-found-after-tractor-overturns-in-otututu-rough-river-in-ikamatua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417332\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast death: Body found after tractor overturns in Otututu\/Rough River in Ikamatua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 May, 2026 02:46 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 class=\"\">A body has been recovered from a West Coast river after a tractor was found in the water this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the body was found downstream from the Otututu\/Rough River, Ikamatua, after the tractor was located upturned in the river about 10.45am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The body is believed to be<br \/>\n         the sole occupant of the tractor.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice extend their sincere condolences to the deceased\u2019s family at this very difficult time,\u201d a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice ask that members of the public avoid the area while emergency services are at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 May, 2026 02:46 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,7800,11586,634,1874,71,214489,78,1304,111,43,139,69,214488,76808,8694,6739,1961,29687,376,3807],"class_list":["post-417332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-body","tag-coast","tag-death","tag-found","tag-from","tag-ikamatua","tag-in","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otututurough","tag-overturns","tag-recovered","tag-river","tag-this","tag-tractor","tag-water","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417332","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=417332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}