{"id":473275,"date":"2026-06-12T06:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473275\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T06:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:14:12","slug":"body-found-in-lake-tekapo-after-search-for-missing-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473275\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Lake Tekapo after search for missing man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice are providing the necessary support to the man\u2019s family, and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,\u201d a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">The death will be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Police thanked all the search and rescue staff, along with Coastguard Mackenzie Lakes volunteers, Fire and Emergency New Zealand, and a helicopter crew, who assisted in the search last night and today.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A man went missing from the State Highway 8 bridge into Tekapo River\/Lake Tekapo on Thursday night. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A man went missing from the State Highway 8 bridge into Tekapo River\/Lake Tekapo on Thursday night. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPolice are providing the necessary support to the man\u2019s family, and our thoughts are with them at this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7800,8999,2082,1874,305,78,13207,38915,5158,6501,111,43,139,69,17286,675,1870,130516],"class_list":["post-473275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-body","tag-extensive","tag-for","tag-found","tag-have","tag-in","tag-lake","tag-located","tag-man","tag-missing","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-operation","tag-police","tag-search","tag-tekapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473275","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=473275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}