A homicide investigation has been launched after police found a body at an address linked to a crash between a car and a train in the Bay of Plenty this morning.<\/p>\n
Police said officers were first called to Te Puke Highway in Paengaroa at around 9am following reports of a collision between a car and a train. The driver of the vehicle remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Hato Hone St John said a helicopter, an ambulance, a rapid response unit and a manager attended the scene. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews from Te Puke.<\/p>\n
“Our crews assessed and treated one patient who was airlifted to Waikato hospital in a critical condition,” it said. <\/p>\n
Following the crash, police made inquiries at an address in Kawerau, where they found the body of a deceased woman.<\/p>\n
“Police are working to determine the exact circumstances surrounding the woman\u2019s death; however, it is being treated as suspicious, and a homicide investigation is underway,” Detective Senior Sergeant Lou Curragh said.<\/p>\n
Scene examinations and guards are in place.<\/p>\n
Police said it will provide more information when in a position to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched after police found a body at an address linked to a crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-640917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640917","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=640917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}