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The Guardian - US
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Andrew Downie in São Paulo

Hopes fade of finding missing men as Brazilian police report finding ‘apparently human’ material

Two women hold up a sign bearing images of the missing men.
British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira were reported missing on Sunday after they ventured into the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP/Getty Images

Hopes of finding a British journalist and a Brazilian guide faded on Friday as police announced an unsettling development in the search for the two men last seen five days ago on a remote river in Amazonia.

“Search teams found on the river, near to Atalaia do Norte, apparently human organic material,” Brazil’s federal police said in a statement.

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