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A tow truck retrieves a vehicle from Te Hoiere Pelorus River on Kaiuma Bay Rd on Friday morning.
A body has been recovered from a vehicle found submerged in a Marlborough river.
Police and Fire and Emergency NZ responded after a report that a vehicle was seen submerged in Te Hoiere Pelorus River, off Kaiuma Bay Rd, about 3 kilometres from Havelock, shortly before 4.30pm on Thursday.
The Police National Dive Squad managed to recover the body from the vehicle late on Friday night.
Police were at the scene again on Friday morning. The narrow and partly unsealed road was closed for much of the morning while the vehicle was recovered.
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The vehicle was retrieved with the use of a tow truck on Friday morning, pulling the vehicle some distance up the steep banks between the river and the road.
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Members of the Police National Dive Squad have recovered a body from submerged vehicle in a Marlborough river. (file photo).
Kaiuma Bay Rd reopened about 11am.
A post-mortem would be conducted to formally identify the person, and the Serious Crash Unit was investigating the crash, a police spokesperson said.
