Brazil's Navy searching for British journalist missing in Amazon jungle

FILE PHOTO: A view of the Korubo tribe in the Javari Valley reservation, Brazil February 1, 2019. Picture taken February 1, 2019. FUNAI/Handout via Reuters

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's Navy on Monday dispatched a crew of ten people to search for British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went missing while reporting in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru.

Navy spokeswoman Cibelly Lopes, in the Brazilian border city of Tabatinga, said it should take the Navy vessel around three to four hours to reach the isolated base of Atalaia do Norte. The Navy team will then head to the Sao Gabriel riverside community, where the two men were last seen early on Sunday morning. It is unlikely the search party will arrive before nightfall, Lopes said.