Specialist search teams, rescue dogs, a helicopter and up to 300 people from the area were involved in searching for him.<\/p>\n
The pond was about 100 metres from his house.<\/p>\n
The police dive squad spent about an hour searching before he was found.<\/p>\n
Kaizer’s body being carried to his home by family.\u00a0<\/span>Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Alexa Cook<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n His family were sobbing and keening as they walked his body across a paddock after he was found.<\/p>\n Khyzah’s father yelled out “I’ve lost my f***ing son” as he nearly fell, but he was held up by wh\u0101nau.<\/p>\n Dozens of people surrounded the grieving family as they lifted Khyzah’s stretcher up and carried him down the driveway to his home.<\/p>\n The family have requested privacy to mourn.<\/p>\n Earlier, RNZ reporter Alexa Cook told\u00a0Checkpoint<\/i>\u00a0the area where Khyzah went missing was a “really rough part of the country”.<\/p>\n “It’s beautiful but it is steep, it’s gnarly, there’s lots of big high hills, low gullies, lots of ponds and rivers and waterways that can all be pretty treacherous for a little five-year-old autistic boy,” she said.<\/p>\n rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body of a five-year-old boy missing near Gisborne has been found in a farm pond near his home. Khyzah\u00a0went missing\u00a0from his home in the rural Hangaroa district of Gisborne and had not been seen since about 2pm on Sunday. Specialist search teams, rescue dogs, a helicopter and up to 300 people from the area […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10946,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions\/10946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}