{"id":599911,"date":"2026-09-14T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:04:14","slug":"two-people-die-one-injured-after-boat-capsizes-at-rangitikei-river-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599911\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people die, one injured after boat capsizes at Rangit\u012bkei River bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have died and another has been injured after a boat capsized near the mouth of the Rangit\u012bkei River this morning.<\/p>\n

Police were told of the incident at 8.35am, Manawat\u016b Area Commander Inspector Matenga Gray said. <\/p>\n

“Three people were reported to be in the water. Sadly, two people died, while another sustained injuries and has been taken to hospital.”<\/p>\n

Two dead, one injured, after boat capsizes off Manawat\u016b coast – Watch on TVNZ+<\/a><\/p>\n

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The boat salved after a capsize at the Rangit\u012bkei River mouth (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Coastguard’s National Operations Centre was notified just after 8am. <\/p>\n

“Volunteers from Coastguard Manawat\u016b responded with their jetski Blue Rescue and rescue vessel Kevin Morris II,” a spokesperson told 1News.<\/p>\n

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A map showing location of Tangimoana (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

St John sent two ambulances, an operations manager and a rapid response vehicle to the scene.<\/p>\n

“One patient has been transported to Palmerston North Hospital in a moderate condition,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency NZ sent one crew from Tangimoana to assist.<\/p>\n

The deaths are expected to be referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n

Tangimoana, located at the mouth of the Rangitikei River, is around 30km west of Palmerston North.<\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including a coroner slams our drinking culture, Trump brushes off AI concerns, and Celine is back. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and another has been injured after a boat capsized near the mouth of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,31044,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-599911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599911","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=599911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}