{"id":15505,"date":"2025-10-30T05:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15505"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:58:38","slug":"new-zealand-woman-found-dead-in-thailand-hotel-room-local-media-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15505","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand woman found dead in Thailand hotel room, local media reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai media are reporting that a New Zealand woman was found dead in her hotel room in Phuket, Thailand on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><i>Phuket News<\/i>\u00a0reported that police are investigating the death of a 47-year-old New Zealand tourist who was staying near Kata Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Police told the news outlet that a preliminary forensic report suggested &#8220;a reaction between alcohol and [anti-depressant] medication possibly led to respiratory failure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesperson confirmed they were aware of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New Zealand Embassy in Bangkok is providing assistance to the family of a New Zealander who died in Thailand. We extend our sympathies to the family at this sad time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For privacy reasons no further information will be provided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai media are reporting that a New Zealand woman was found dead in her hotel room in Phuket, Thailand on Tuesday. Phuket News\u00a0reported that police are investigating the death of a 47-year-old New Zealand tourist who was staying near Kata Beach. Police told the news outlet that a preliminary forensic report suggested &#8220;a reaction between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15505","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\/15505","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=15505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15507,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions\/15507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}