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Andrew Downie in São Paulo and Caio Barretto Briso in Rio de Janeiro

Pelé joins calls for Brazil to step up search for pair missing in Amazon

Pelé, 81, wrote on Twitter: ‘I am moved by the disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Ferreira, who dedicate their lives’ to the cause of the Amazon and Indigenous groups.
Pelé, 81, wrote on Twitter: ‘The fight for the preservation of the Amazon forest and of the Indigenous groups belongs to all of us.’ Photograph: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images

A host of Brazilian celebrities, led by the three-time World Cup winner Pelé, have joined calls for authorities to intensify their search for a British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous advocate missing in the Amazon rainforest.

Pelé, now 81 and considered one of the greatest players of all time, retweeted a video made by Phillips’s wife appealing for more urgency in the search for her husband and Bruno Pereira.

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