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Suspect confesses to burying bodies of two men missing in Amazon
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Task Forces head to the place where the bodies of Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips would be buried after a suspect indicated the location, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 15, 2022. One of two men arrested over the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Brazilian Amazon confessed to having buried the pair in the jungle, federal police said Wednesday after human remains were found.
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ne of two men arrested over the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Brazilian Amazon confessed to having buried the pair in the jungle, federal police said Wednesday after human remains were found.
Dom Phillips and his guide Bruno Pereira went missing June 5 in a remote part of the Amazon that is rife with environmental crimes including illegal mining, fishing and logging, as well as drug trafficking.
Police did not specify whether the suspect, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also confessed to killing the pair, saying only that he admitted to having participated in the episode and "recounted in detail the crime that was committed and indicated the place where he buried the bodies."
Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, head of federal police in Brazil's Amazonas state, told a press conference that Oliveira said the two men were fatally shot.
The location where the remains were found was "very difficult to reach," the police officer said in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon.
"Excavations have been carried out on site. The excavations will continue, but human remains have already been found.
"As soon as we have been able to verify with the help of expertise that it is indeed the remains of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, they will be returned to the families."
