Police have recovered a body from the Wairoa River in Northland in the search for a missing 22-year-old from Dargaville.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Shane Pilmer said police and teams were searching for missing man Saxzin Steedman who hadn’t been seen since June 30.<\/p>\n
“Police Search and Rescue and Land SAR teams were today conducting extensive searches, focusing around the Northern Wairoa Bridge and located a body on the western side of the bridge at about 12.15pm.<\/p>\n
“While formal identification is still underway, police believe the body is that of the missing 22-year-old.”<\/p>\n
Police have extended their sincere condolences to the man’s wh\u0101nau, and family members are being supported.<\/p>\n
“Police would like to thank all those who assisted in the search efforts and for the information provided by the public.”<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s death has been referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have recovered a body from the Wairoa River in Northland in the search for a missing 22-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,1067,69],"class_list":["post-540498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540498","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=540498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}