Brazil’s justice minister says police have reported finding human remains in the Amazon area where an Indigenous expert and British journalist disappeared more than a week ago.
June 15, 2022, 9:55 PMFederal police officers arrive at the pier with recovered human remains found during a search in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried.
Torres said the remains are expected to be identified within days, and if confirmed as the missing men, “will be returned to the families of the two.” “They put bags of dirt on the boat so it would sink,” he said. The engine of the boat was removed, according to investigators.The news conference at Brazil's federal police headquarters in Manaus also included military leaders, who joined the effort to find Phillips and Pereira a few days after their disappearance was reported. Indigenous leaders who sounded the alarm over their disapperance and made searches deep into the forest from the first day were not invited.
Pereira and Phillips were last seen on their boat in a river near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia. That area has seen violent conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agents. Indigenous people who were with Pereira and Phillips have said that Pelado brandished a rifle at them on the day before the pair disappeared.
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