{"id":62882,"date":"2025-10-07T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62882\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T01:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T01:21:16","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-hunter-missing-near-manapouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/62882\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for hunter missing near Manapouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-1211208155_0.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Lake Manapouri. File photo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lake Manapouri. File photo<\/p>\n<p>Police searching for a missing hunter have found a body in the Manapouri area.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today police said a search began yesterday for a man who had not returned after going hunting off Supply Bay Rd near Lake Manapouri.<\/p>\n<p>They were notified when the man failed to return at 2pm as intended.<\/p>\n<p>A body, believed to be that of the hunter, was located by a Search and Rescue team about 6:15pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The death has been referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Police said their thoughts &#8220;are with his family and loved ones at this difficult time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The family are being offered support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police would like to thank the Fiordland Land Search and Rescue volunteers and the various members of the public who assisted with search efforts to locate the hunter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lake Manapouri. File photo Police searching for a missing hunter have found a body in the Manapouri area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-62882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62882","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=62882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}