Brazil: Authorities find personal belongings of British journalist and Brazilian who went missing in the Amazon

Brazilian authorities have found personal belongings belonging to British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous Bruno Pereira, who went missing a week ago in a secluded part of the Amazon, police said last night (local time).

“Items belonging to the two missing persons were found: a health card, black pants, a black sandal and a pair of boots belonging to Bruno Pereira and a pair of boots and a backpack belonging to Dom Phillips and containing clothes,” the statement said. Amazon state police (northwestern Brazil).

Earlier, the Amazon fire department told local media that local items belonging to the two missing were found “near the house” of Amarildo Costa de Oliveira, the only person arrested in the case.

Police said yesterday that on the 7th day of the operation, search teams covered a distance of about 25 kilometers and carried out “meticulous searches in the jungle, in the streets of the area and in flooded areas with vegetation”, mainly in the area where a boat belonging to suspicious.

Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to The Guardian, and Bruno Pereira, 41, a longtime specialist with the Funai Indigenous Government, traveled by boat to the area. of the Giavari Valley, an isolated area in the western part of the Amazon, interviewing for a book on the environment.

The two men were last seen on June 5, in the community of San Gabriel, not far from their destination, the city of Atalaya do Norte.

The news of the two men ‘s disappearance has sparked worldwide interest, with Brazilian celebrities from football legend Pelé to singer Caetano Veloso joining forces with environmentalists, human rights activists and human rights activists. to intensify investigations.

SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

Source: Capital

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