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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon

Dom Phillips talks to two indigenous men in Aldeia Maloca Papiú, Roraima state, Brazil, in 2019.
Dom Phillips talks to two indigenous men in Aldeia Maloca Papiú, Roraima state, Brazil, in 2019. Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images

Fears are growing over the safety of a British journalist and a Brazilian Indigenous expert who have disappeared in one of the remotest corners of the Amazon just days after receiving threats.

Dom Phillips, a longtime contributor to the Guardian in Brazil, was last seen over the weekend in the Javari region of Amazonas state – a vast region of rivers and rainforests near the border with Peru.

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