A 5-year-old boy went missing at Piha in the late afternoon of 22 October 2016. It was reported that he was seen in the sand-dunes and on the track to Whites Beach. He was subsequently found about 9 pm dead on the rocks at North Piha, but not from drowning.
Follow up story about the boy Savva Lopoukhine who fell from Laird Thomson Track, not White’s track as the article says
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