Three charged in Brazil with murder of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
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Prosecutors say two men confessed to killing British journalist and Indigenous expert while third participated
Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the murder in June of the British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil's Amazon rainforest.
Phillips - a regular contributor to the Guardian - and Pereira had met Indigenous people near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia, and were travelling along the Itaquai River back to the city of Atalaia do Norte when they were attacked.
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