Autopsy on West Auckland body

An autopsy will be conducted today on the body discovered in a west Auckland stream.

Due to the condition of the body, police are not sure if the person found in the waterway in Sunnyvale is a man or a woman.

However it could be one of two people missing in the region.

John Meldrum, 58, was last seen at his nearby home on October 25.

Srikanth Rayadurgam, a 23-year-old Indian student, was last seen on October 1.

Police have carried out searches of the Waitemata Harbour for him.

- NEWSTALK ZB