Amazon fires: Brazil sends warplanes to dump water on devastating blaze after international outcry

Brazil’s warplanes are dumping water on fires across the Amazon, as Jair Bolsonaro’s government scrambles to contain the damage following an international outcry.A video posted by Brazil’s Defence Ministry on Saturday evening showed a military plane pumping thousands of litres of water as it passed through clouds of smoke close to a forest canopy in Rondonia state.

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