Bruno Pereira buried in his home state after ceremony led by Indigenous tribes
by Andrew Downie in São Paulo from World news | The Guardian on (#60QRA)
Funeral held in Pernambuco of Indigenous expert who was killed in Amazon region with journalist Dom Phillips
The murdered Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira has been buried in his home state of Pernambuco in Brazil after a small ceremony attended by family members and local tribes.
Dozens of Indigenous people from the Xukuru tribe paraded around his coffin chanting farewell rituals to the beat of their percussion instruments on Friday.
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