{"id":554417,"date":"2026-08-01T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554417\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:51:08","slug":"person-found-in-mt-wellington-auckland-waterway-dies-death-referred-to-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554417\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found in Mt Wellington, Auckland waterway dies, death referred to coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The body was found near Panama Rd in Mt Wellington this afternoon. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being found unresponsive in a waterway in the Auckland suburb of Mt Wellington this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to Panama Rd about 4.20pm following reports from the public of a person in the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The person was pronounced dead shortly after, police said in a<br \/>\n         statement to the Herald.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The death will be referred to the coroner, a police spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,11730,51,682,12629,634,6179,7126,1874,78,10048,111,139,69,4056,38538,213,17294,1961,61,132851,156774,52],"class_list":["post-554417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-afternoon","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-coroner","tag-death","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-found","tag-in","tag-mt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-referred","tag-sports","tag-suburb","tag-this","tag-to","tag-unresponsive","tag-waterway","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554417","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=554417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}