{"id":509662,"date":"2026-07-04T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509662\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:03:13","slug":"police-investigate-unexplained-death-at-christchurch-motel-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/509662\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate unexplained death at Christchurch motel overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating the unexplained death of a woman at a Christchurch motel overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the Colombo Street motel about 3.20am after reports of an unresponsive woman.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts to help her, she was unable to be revived.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Senior Sergeant Dan Overend said a scene examination was under way today and was expected to take some time to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Police would have a visible presence in the area while the examination continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnquiries are in their very early stages and we will share any updates when they become available,\u201d Overend said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating the unexplained death of a woman at a Christchurch motel overnight. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[373,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-509662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-featured","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\/509662","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=509662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}