{"id":590937,"date":"2026-09-05T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590937\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:24:11","slug":"person-dies-after-being-pulled-from-water-in-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590937\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being pulled from water in Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died after getting into difficulty in the water in Wainui today. <\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said emergency services were called about midday after someone was pulled from the water after getting into difficulty near Cape Three Points around midday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, they were unable to be revived,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>St John said it responded to the water incident near Bossu Rd in Wainui just before midday. <\/p>\n<p>It sent one first response unit, one PRIME responder and one helicopter to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The death would be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Three Points was a rocky headland and small island group located at the southern end of Wainui Bay in Akaroa Harbour, on Banks Peninsula. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died after getting into difficulty in the water in Wainui today. A police spokesperson said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-590937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590937","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=590937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}