Federal police said Friday that one of the two bodies found deep in Brazil's Amazon has been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips.
have been identified as belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips.
He told officers he used a firearm to commit the crime and led police to a spot in the remote forest to locate the remains. "We found the bodies three kilometers into the woods," federal investigator, Eduardo Alexandre Fontes said in a news conference earlier this week, adding that rescue teams traveled about one hour and forty minutes on the river and 25 more into the woods to reach the burial spot.
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