Brazil: Police find items of journalist and Indigenous expert missing in Amazon
17 June 2022 |
1:30 pm
Brazilian rescue teams have found a backpack and clothes belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips and tribal expert Bruno Pereira respectively. Their mission to find the missing men continues.
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