{"id":580742,"date":"2026-08-26T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T09:32:10","slug":"new-zealand-teen-missing-at-sea-after-boat-capsizes-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580742\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand teen missing at sea after boat capsizes in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>26 Aug, 2026 08:04 AMQuick 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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">New Zealand teenager Albert (front left) is missing after a boat carrying him and three other people capsized in Bangladesh, officials said. Photo \/ Bangladesh National Emergency Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rescue teams were searching Wednesday for a New Zealand teenager missing after a boat carrying him and three other people capsized in Bangladesh, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Albert, 16, whose surname was withheld by police, went missing after the boat overturned in rough waters on Tuesday morning near an estuary off Cox\u2019s<br \/>\n         Bazar on the country\u2019s southeastern coast.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The four New Zealanders had been on a trip when the boat met with an accident. Photo \/ Bangladesh National Emergency Service\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The four New Zealanders had been on a trip when the boat met with an accident. Photo \/ Bangladesh National Emergency Service<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">The other three New Zealanders on the boat were rescued by fishermen nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Coast Guard is searching for the boy while a helicopter is conducting an aerial search. Fishermen have also been alerted about the missing teenager,\u201d an official told AFP on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 26 Aug, 2026 08:04 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,11497,5532,58461,127406,1875,78,6501,117,111,43,139,69,10711,193,384,8527,3048,3008,11929,4412,5163,4054,1529,1680,3608,80],"class_list":["post-580742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-bangladesh","tag-boat","tag-capsized","tag-capsizes","tag-carrying","tag-in","tag-missing","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-officials","tag-other","tag-people","tag-rescue","tag-said","tag-sea","tag-searching","tag-teams","tag-teen","tag-teenager","tag-three","tag-wednesday","tag-were","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580742","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=580742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}