Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips went missing in the western Amazon, but the search has been called inefficient
Indigenous leaders in the area where a British journalist and Brazilian explorer went missing last Sunday have expressed increasing frustration at the lack of coordination in the search for the two men.
They disappeared at the end of a reporting trip but the search was slow to get going and Indigenous leaders criticised the lack of coordination between the different groups sent to the region, including the army, navy and federal police.“They are just going up and down the river, coming and going … they won’t find them [like this].”
At least 50 locals on three boats have been scouring the river and its tributaries looking for signs of the two men or the boat in which they were travelling.
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