{"id":473558,"date":"2026-06-12T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473558\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:28:10","slug":"body-located-in-lake-tekapo-after-report-of-person-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473558\/","title":{"rendered":"Body located in Lake Tekapo after report of person in the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A body has been located in Lake Tekapo after a report of a person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/06\/12\/search-to-resume-for-man-reported-missing-in-lake-tekapo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">going into the water<\/a> at 8pm last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The police dive squad discovered the body, which matched the description of the missing man, at about 2pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Police are providing the necessary support to the man&#8217;s family, and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police thanked those involved in the search, including its own search and rescue staff, Coastguard Mackenzie Lakes volunteers, Fire and Emergency New Zealand and a helicopter crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The death will be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been located in Lake Tekapo after a report of a person going into the water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-473558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473558","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=473558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}