{"id":490623,"date":"2026-06-22T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:11","slug":"body-found-in-rongomai-park-pond-in-south-auckland-police-say-death-unexplained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/490623\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Rongomai Park pond in South Auckland, police say death \u2018unexplained\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
A post-mortem is expected to take place today. <\/p>\n
Cordons were in place yesterday, but the park has since reopened.<\/p>\n
Police conducting a body recovery from a pond at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward<\/p>\n
The public may see an increased police presence while inquiries continue, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n
Yesterday, police search and rescue were at the scene to carry out a recovery operation. <\/p>\n
Walkway entrances into the park \u2013 which is next to Te Irirangi Drive \u2013 were temporarily cordoned off while police worked in the area.<\/p>\n
A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said an ambulance also attended. <\/p>\n
A Herald photographer at the scene yesterday said police search and rescue staff, wearing PPE and waders, were preparing to deploy an inflatable boat into the pond within the reserve. <\/p>\n
Cordons were established at Rongomai Park in Flat Bush while police carried out a body recovery mission. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward.<\/p>\n
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":"A post-mortem is expected to take place today. Cordons were in place yesterday, but the park has since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,5417,7800,634,5346,1874,78,111,43,139,69,8143,6744,675,105686,10715,245977,5659,1240,199,1865,23504],"class_list":["post-490623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-autopsy","tag-body","tag-death","tag-expected","tag-found","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-place","tag-police","tag-pond","tag-remains","tag-rongomai","tag-say","tag-south","tag-take","tag-today","tag-unexplained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490623","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=490623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}