{"id":556765,"date":"2026-08-02T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556765\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:10:10","slug":"police-investigate-death-of-harry-burlace-after-pongakawa-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/556765\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate death of Harry Burlace after Pongakawa incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotorua Daily Post<\/p>\n<p>2 Aug, 2026 09:22 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<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 class=\"\">A man critically injured in an incident at a Bay of Plenty forest on Friday night has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were called to Rotoehu Forest, at Pongakawa, about 10.15pm where the man was found critically injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police today confirmed the man, named as Harry Burlace, 24, died in Rotorua<br \/>\n         Hospital from his injuries.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are continuing to piece together the events that led to Harry being critically injured, and continue to make a number of inquiries as to what happened,\u201d Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua Daily Post 2 Aug, 2026 09:22 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,273821,12939,634,6179,3247,4999,9859,42,671,10933,676,43,2551,1118,1562,675,6648,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-556765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-burlace","tag-critically","tag-death","tag-died","tag-forest","tag-friday","tag-harry","tag-headlines","tag-incident","tag-injured","tag-investigate","tag-news","tag-night","tag-of","tag-plenty","tag-police","tag-pongakawa","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556765","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=556765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}