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Possible human remains have been found in the search for a missing British journalist and an Indigenous guide who vanished a week ago in a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon.
Dom Phillips, who has been a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper, and former Indigenous official Bruno Pereira were last seen the morning of June 5 near the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, located in an area of the remote Brazilian Amazon bordering Peru and Colombia.
The two men were in the Sao Rafael community and returning by boat to the nearby city of Atalaia do Norte but never arrived. After what has been criticized as a slow start, the Brazilian army, the navy, civil defense, state police and Indigenous volunteers have been mobilized in the search.
Speaking at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles Friday, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro vowed that his armed forces were working “tirelessly” to find them, according to Reuters.
SUSPECT HELD AS BRAZIL STEPS UP SEARCH FOR MISSING BRITISH JOURNALIST AND RESEARCHER IN REMOTE AMAZON
A December 2009 photograph shows British journalist Dom Phillips, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru in Brazil.
(Paul Sherwood/Handout via REUTERS)
The Brazilian federal police revealed Saturday that “apparently human” remains had been recovered from an area of the river Friday near where the two men had vanished, and the “organic material” was being sent for forensic analysis, Reuters and The Associated Press reported.
But sources, including a federal police officer and a state detective, separately expressed doubt to Reuters that such material could be anything more than butcher’s scraps judging on where it was found.
The only known suspect in the disappearances is fisherman Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado, who is under arrest on a charge of illegal possession of restricted…
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