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A rāhui has been placed over part of the Mohaka River in Hawke’s Bay after the drowning of a man while rafting over the weekend.
A post from iwi Ngāti Hineuru said on Tuesday a blessing had taken place at “the location where our whanaunga drowned on our awa Mōhaka”.
Police on Wednesday morning confirmed one person had died following a water-related incident in Mohaka River, Bay View, on Saturday, December 16.
Around 3pm a raft tipped while going down the Mohaka River and one person had subsequently died, police said.
A rāhui had been placed on the river from Glen Falls to Te Kooti’s Bridge and will be in place until further notice, the post said.
It had already been a tragic few days in Hawke’s Bay with two people killed in separate road crashes, one on Friday afternoon and one on early Saturday morning and a beach drowning, also on Friday afternoon.
