{"id":483519,"date":"2026-06-18T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483519\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:09:09","slug":"police-identify-body-recovered-from-lake-tekapo-as-baldeep-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/483519\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify body recovered from Lake Tekapo as Baldeep Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Jun, 2026 08:52 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=\"\">Police have named the person whose body was found in Lake Tekapo last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Christchurch man Baldeep Singh, 34, died after he reportedly came off the town\u2019s main bridge and failed to resurface on June 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         An extensive search operation was launched involving police, Coastguard Mackenzie Lakes volunteers, Fire<br \/>\n         and Emergency New Zealand, a helicopter crew and the Police Dive Squad.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/body-found-in-lake-tekapo-after-search-for-missing-man\/XELL64X7FFDT3GEVMPQ3X37FTM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/body-found-in-lake-tekapo-after-search-for-missing-man\/XELL64X7FFDT3GEVMPQ3X37FTM\/\">The Police Dive Squad recovered his body<\/a> about 2pm the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Jun, 2026 08:52 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,242802,7800,1874,71,305,33491,13207,685,10136,111,43,139,69,4056,675,8694,22498,130516,686,17454],"class_list":["post-483519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-baldeep","tag-body","tag-found","tag-from","tag-have","tag-identify","tag-lake","tag-last","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-recovered","tag-singh","tag-tekapo","tag-week","tag-whose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483519","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=483519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}