'I will have my boat stolen': final days of British kayaker killed in Brazil
Emma Kelty, who posted social media messages before sending distress signal, was no stranger to solo adventures
by Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro, and Damien Gayle and Nicola Slawson in London
Sep 20, 2017
3 minutes
Posting on social media on 10 September, Emma Kelty joked about a warning she had been given about the stretch of the Amazon river she was about to enter. “So in or near Coari (60 miles) I will have my boat stolen and I will be killed too,” she wrote. “Nice.”
Two days later, Kelty, who was canoeing the length of the Amazon, said she was “in the clear”. But hours later she posted again, describing an encounter with armed
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