Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Brazil: Police say no bodies found in search for missing men” – below is their description.
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.
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Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas, as well as the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. Brazil is classified as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country.
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely in the north of South America, with territories in North America. Colombia is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, the northwest by Panama, the south by Ecuador and Peru, the east by Venezuela, the southeast by Brazil, and the west by the Pacific Ocean.
The capital is Bogotá, the country’s largest city. With over 50 million inhabitants Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world. The Republic of Colombia was declared in 1886. Panama seceded in 1903.
Colombia’s territory encompasses Amazon rainforest, highlands, grasslands, and deserts, and it is the only country in South America with coastlines and islands along both the Atlantic and Pacific.
American-Brazilian Journalist, based in Rio de Janeiro, covering Brazil for Aljazeera English. Previously worked in over 30 countries, covering world events. – Source @MonikaKiev Twitter Bio
Peru is a country in South America that’s home to a section of Amazon rainforest and Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan city high in the Andes mountains. The region around Machu Picchu, including the Sacred Valley, Inca Trail and colonial city of Cusco, is rich in archaeological sites. On Peru’s arid Pacific coast is Lima, the capital, with a preserved colonial center and important collections of pre-Columbian art.
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.