{"id":66956,"date":"2025-10-09T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66956\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:40:10","slug":"body-found-at-christchurch-coastline-after-incident-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66956\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found at Christchurch coastline after \u2018incident\u2019, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>9 Oct, 2025 01:34 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A helicopter was enlisted to help with today&#8217;s operation. Photo \/ George Heard<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police investigation is under way after a body was found on the Christchurch coastline today. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police say they were alerted to an \u201cincident\u201d in the Whitewash Head area near Sumner just before midday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police say they believe \u201cthe person located deceased is not 17-year-old missing person Marley\u201c.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cMembers of the public are advised to avoid the area and expect a police presence while enquiries are ongoing,\u201d a police statement says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The death will be referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 9 Oct, 2025 01:34 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,7800,4487,41244,1874,671,12898,111,43,139,69,675,5659,1865,8238],"class_list":{"0":"post-66956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-at","10":"tag-body","11":"tag-christchurch","12":"tag-coastline","13":"tag-found","14":"tag-incident","15":"tag-investigation","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-say","22":"tag-today","23":"tag-under"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66956","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=66956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}