A second man has been arrested over the disappearance of British journalist Don Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.
British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira are seen on a sign presented by employees of the National Indigenous Foundation, FUNAI, during a vigil in Brazil.Brazilian police have arrested a second suspect in the investigation of the disappearance of British journalist Don Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil.
Speaking of Oseney, Alex Perez, a police investigator, told reporters: "He did not resist arrest on suspicion of homicide based on witness accounts that placed the two suspects at the supposed scene of the crime." Mr Pereira, a former head of isolated and recently contacted tribes at the government's Indigenous affairs agency Funai, was travelling on a research trip with Phillips, a freelance reporter who has written for the Guardian and the Washington Post and was working on a book on the Amazon.
The belongings included an ID card for Mr Pereira. A firefighter on a search team told reporters of a backpack with clothes and a laptop that was tied to a half-sunken tree trunk.