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Judi Lynn

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5. Pel joins calls for Brazil to step up search for British journalist missing in Amazon

Thu Jun 9, 2022, 03:02 AM

Jun 2022

By Daniel Keane
52 minutes ago

Legendary Brazilian footballer Pelé has joined calls for authorities to investigate the disappearance of a British journalist and indigenous affairs officials who are missing in the Amazon.

Dom Phillips, a Guardian journalist, and Bruno Araujo Pereira vanished from a remote part of the rainforest more than three days ago after last being seen early on Sunday in the Sao Rafael community.

Pelé, 81, retweeted a video made by Mr Phillips’s wife calling for an urgent search for the pair.

“The fight for the preservation of the Amazon forest and of the Indigenous groups belongs to all of us,” the three-time World Cup winner wrote on Twitter.

More:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/pele-calls-brazil-search-dom-phillips-amazon-b1004990.html

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