Brazil: Police say no bodies found in search for missing men
Brazilian police and an Indigenous search group have dismissed reports that they found the bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing in the Amazon rainforest more than a week ago. Phillips and Pereira were last seen on June 5 while on a reporting trip in the Javari Valley, a remote jungle area near the border with Peru and Colombia. Authorities said on Sunday that they had recovered in a river several items belonging to Phillips, a contributor to The Guardian and other news outlets, and Pereira, a former official with Brazil’s federal Indigenous agency, Fundacao Nacional do Indio (FUNAI). On Monday, The Guardian reported that two bodies believed to be the men’s were recovered in the search. Paul Sherwood, Phillips’ brother-in-law, told the newspaper that an aide to the Brazilian ambassador to the United Kingdom told the family that “they had found two bodies”. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro also said on Monday that “human innards were found floating in the river, which are now undergoing DNA testing”, the AFP news agency reported. Al Jazeera’s Monica Yanakiew reports from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Brazil #DomPhillips #BrunoPereira #Amazonia
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