{"id":613062,"date":"2026-05-31T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613062\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:18:11","slug":"body-of-man-in-his-40s-found-in-river-at-surlingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613062\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of man in his 40s found in river at Surlingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Emergency crews responded yesterday afternoon to reports of a concern for the safety of a man in the water on a stretch of the River Yare near Ferry Road in Surlingham at 2.33pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"surlnigham\"\/>Emergency crews responded on yesterday afternoon (Image: Newsquest)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The search continued today and the man&#8217;s body was discovered after the use of sonar equipment and a dive team, with police confirming the find at 5.27pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police say the man was in his 40s and his next of kin has been told.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The death is being treated as unexplained but it is not believed to be suspicious.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A file is being prepared for the coroner.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A police cordon remains in place following the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26152027.search-suspended-man-entered-water-surlingham\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The search<\/a> involved police, fire, coastguard, air ambulance, and search teams from Norfolk and Suffolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"surlingham search\"\/>A police cordon is still in place (Image: Newsquest)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews responded yesterday afternoon to reports of a concern for the safety of a man in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}