{"id":15414,"date":"2025-10-22T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15414"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:03:35","slug":"main-road-closed-after-sudden-death-in-central-whangarei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15414","title":{"rendered":"Main road closed after sudden death in central Whang\u0101rei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have closed off a major road in Whang\u0101rei after a sudden death in the central city.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to Bank Street, near the intersection with Vine and Water streets, at about 5.45am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a heavy police presence on Bank Street, which is closed off at the intersection by cones, tape and police cars.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Rose Street bus terminal, which is one block further south, is also cordoned off, with buses forced to use Vine St instead.<\/p>\n<p>A nearby shop owner said police have put up a tent at the scene and forensics staff in white boiler suits can be seen at work.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>More to come&#8230;<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have closed off a major road in Whang\u0101rei after a sudden death in the central city. Officers were called to Bank Street, near the intersection with Vine and Water streets, at about 5.45am on Wednesday. There&#8217;s a heavy police presence on Bank Street, which is closed off at the intersection by cones, tape and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414","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=15414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15416,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions\/15416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}