Police are asking for help identifying a man whose body was found in the water off an Auckland beach late this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police said emergency services were called to the northern end of Saint Leonards Beach on the North Shore about 5:45pm today after reports that a man’s body had been seen in the water.<\/p>\n
A member of the public pulled him from the water and CPR was attempted, but the man was pronounced dead on the beach.<\/p>\n
Police said he appeared to be of Asian descent, aged 40-50 – possibly in his early 60s.<\/p>\n
He is of medium build, has a bald head that may be shaven and no facial hair. He has no obvious marks, scars or tattoos.<\/p>\n
The man was not wearing any shoes, but was clad in blue jeans with a bike tyre inner-tube as a belt. He also wore a dark polo shirt with thin light-coloured horizontal stripes, and a pair of blue and green swimming goggles<\/p>\n
Police said the first priority is to identify the man before determining how he died, and anybody who may have information has been urged to contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for help identifying a man whose body was found in the water off an Auckland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-647975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647975","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=647975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}