His physique was to be cremated following the ceremony.
Mr Pereira, who was on go away from the Brazilian authorities company for indigenous affairs, and reporter Dom Phillips have been allegedly killed by a fisherman on June 5, the day they disappeared within the Javari Valley area, near Brazil’s border with Peru and Colombia.
Members of Brazilian indigenous teams, family and friends members have attended the funeral of Bruno Pereira, who was killed with a British journalist throughout a visit to the center of the Amazon rainforest.
Members of the Xukuru indigenous group sang mourning songs near Mr Pereira’s sealed coffin through the ceremony in Recife.
Police investigators stated final week the our bodies of the 2 males have been discovered deep within the forest, the place they have been taken by their killer. Police have arrested three folks in reference to the crime.
Mr Pereira had been attempting to assist indigenous teams of the Javari Valley create a 220-mile path marking the south-western border of their territory to assist defend it from encroachment by ranchers and different outsiders.
He was serving to Mr Phillips throughout a reporting journey to the area once they have been attacked. The journalist, whose funeral was scheduled for Sunday in Rio de Janeiro, was writing a e book on Amazon preservation.
