The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:06.4 | Since Nishin recorded this episode, |
| 0:09.0 | we received the tragic news that the bodies of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira |
| 0:14.4 | have been found by search teams in the Amazon rainforest. |
| 0:18.8 | It's a press briefing late on Wednesday. |
| 0:21.8 | The regional police chief said one of the two men arrested in connection |
| 0:26.0 | with their disappearance had confessed to killing them. |
| 0:30.6 | Our thoughts go out to the families and friends of Dom and Bruno. |
| 0:41.8 | In 2018, deep in the Javari Valley of Brazil, |
| 0:45.4 | a region the size of Austria, |
| 0:47.8 | photographer Gary Colton was on an assignment for the Guardian. |
| 0:51.6 | I think we set our targets at something between 12 and 17 K a day |
| 0:57.4 | and that was single file, hacking our way through dense Amazonian forest. |
| 1:03.4 | On Jolations, there are lots of small tributaries you wade through, waste, deep sometimes. |
| 1:08.6 | He was working with the journalist Dom Phillips. |
| 1:11.6 | They were reporting on an expedition led by the indigenous specialist, Bruno Pereira. |
| 1:17.6 | If we had to, we built river crossings, stumbled up banking, slipped down bankings. |
| 1:24.0 | And each day at about 2 PM, the rains came with a gentle brush of the forest canopy. |
| 1:30.4 | Then we got louder and louder and then the rain just came through the forest canopy. |
| 1:35.2 | Each and every one of us was sought for the next four hours. |
| 1:39.6 | A very simple, in a sense, we're living in the forest and living to the forest rhythm. |
| 1:45.4 | At the time, Bruno worked for the government's indigenous agency, Funai. |
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