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Brazilian police deny bodies found in search for UK journalist, indigenous expert

Maria Lucia Farias Sampaio, mother-in-law of British journalist Dom Phillips, embraces a girl during a protest following the disappearance of Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Araujo Pereira, at Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12, 2022. © Pilar Olivares, Reuters

Brazilian police and indigenous search teams dismissed reports on Monday that they had found the bodies of a British reporter and a Brazilian indigenous expert, more than a week after the pair were last seen in the Amazon rainforest.

On Sunday, Brazilian police said search teams had found the belongings of freelance reporter Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a former official at federal indigenous agency Funai, in a creek off the river where they were last seen on June 5.

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