The Civil Police of Amazonas reported this Sunday (12) that a backpack was found in the area of the search for the indigenist. Bruno Araújo Pereira and by the English journalist Bishop Phillips disappeared a week ago in the Vale do Javari region, in the west of the state.
There is still no confirmation that the object belongs to one of the missing.
Earlier, the Union of Indigenous Organizations of Vale do Javari (Univaja) reported that a vessel was found in the search area.
Pereira is a licensed employee of Funai (Fundação Nacional do Índio). Phillips works for The Guardian newspaper.
Operation Javari teams, who carry out the searches, found on Saturday (11) a place where traces were observed – such as the edge of a ravine where a vessel could have been dragged. The vessel was found near this location, which was forwarded, as well as information about the find, to the Federal Police.
The PF has not yet informed whether the vessel belongs to Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, known as Pelado, temporarily arrested by court order on suspicion of involvement in the disappearance of the pair.
material examined
On Friday (10), teams that are part of Operation Javari located “organic material apparently human” in the Itaquaí River, near the port of Atalaia do Norte, in Amazonas.
The content was sent for expert analysis by the National Institute of Criminalistics of the Federal Police. Blood samples found on Amarildo’s vessel, seized on Thursday (9.
Also on Saturday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a resolution with requests to the Brazilian government regarding the whereabouts of the duo.
Source: CNN Brasil
