Suspect confesses to killing an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried, police say.
Authorities said Wednesday night without giving any details that they expected more arrests would be made soon in the case of freelance reporter Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira of Brazil, who disappeared June 5.
Torres said the remains were 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. Pereira, 41, and Phillips, 57, 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.
Police investigators said Wednesday that de Oliveira had not confessed to any participation in the crime, but added they had evidence against him.
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