{"id":489716,"date":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489716\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:34:09","slug":"police-cordon-flat-bush-park-after-reports-of-body-in-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489716\/","title":{"rendered":"Police cordon Flat Bush park after reports of body in pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Police conducting a body recovery from a pond at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police conducting a body recovery from a pond at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said an ambulance also attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">A Herald photographer at the scene said Police Search and Rescue staff, wearing PPE and waders, deployed an inflatable boat into the pond. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Cordons have been established at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush while police carry out a body recovery mission. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Cordons have been established at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush while police carry out a body recovery mission. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">A specialist police photographer was also seen at the reserve, while several police vehicles remained on nearby Belinda Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police conducting a body recovery from a pond at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,7800,16651,96549,14902,9639,78,111,43,139,69,1118,8143,6744,675,105686,15267,766,42901,1240],"class_list":["post-489716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-body","tag-bush","tag-cordon","tag-cordons","tag-flat","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-park","tag-place","tag-police","tag-pond","tag-reported","tag-reports","tag-secluded","tag-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489716","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=489716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}