{"id":142412,"date":"2018-06-17T14:31:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T14:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leeds-father-and-son-found-dead-in-huddersfield-canal\/"},"modified":"2018-06-17T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T14:31:49","slug":"leeds-father-and-son-found-dead-in-huddersfield-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/leeds-father-and-son-found-dead-in-huddersfield-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds father and son found dead in Huddersfield canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cooper Bridge, Huddersfield\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/174CE\/production\/_102083459_mediaitem102083458.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      The men were magnet fishing - which involves using a magnet to locate objects in water                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Police divers have found the bodies of a father and son who went missing while magnet fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The men are believed to have been trawling the bottom of a canal with a magnet to find metal objects in the water when they lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire Police said their bodies were recovered on Saturday night after an extensive search in the Cooper Bridge area of Huddersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The force said it was not treating the deaths as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said the alarm was raised by a passer-by who noticed personal belongings, including clothing, a mobile phone, a camera and car keys, were on the waterside for almost an hour.<\/p>\n<p>He said officers traced a car parked nearby to the Pudsey area of Leeds, where a woman confirmed that her 43-year-old husband and his 19-year-old son had gone out magnet fishing early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said an extensive search was carried out in the area but there was no trace of the two men and police divers were called in.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of the men were found just before 19:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The family are aware and inquiries are ongoing into how they ended up in the water,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption The men were magnet fishing - which involves using a magnet to locate objects in water Police divers have found the bodies of a father and son who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}