How the final journey of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira ended in tragedy

"Dom Phillips loved the Amazon and he loved the Amazon’s fish. His favourite was the tucunaré, a speckled South American peacock bass whose Indigenous name means “friend of the trees”.

It was in a hotel room named after the tucunaré that the British journalist spent his last night before venturing into the jungle with the Brazilian activist Bruno Pereira on the afternoon of Thursday 2 June.

But before checking out of the hotel in the river town of Atalaia do Norte, Phillips had one final interview to do."

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