The area where they both disappeared is known to be one of the most inaccessible in the region.
Alessandra Sampaio, wife of British journalist Dom Phillips, whose trail was lost just over a week ago with native Bruno Pereira while traveling through a difficult-to-access area in the Amazon, reported Monday that the dead bodies of both are located.
At this time, neither the Brazilian authorities nor the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), which reported the disappearance of both, have confirmed that the bodies found are those of Phillips and Pereira.
However, Sampaio has revealed that federal police have confirmed the bodies are those of her husband and his partner, while the British embassy had already contacted the Phillips brothers to pass the news to them, reports the G1 portal of the newspaper ‘O Globo’.
Both were last seen on June 5 in the community of Sao Rafael — in the indigenous lands of the Javari Valley — from where they set out for Atalaia del Norte, although they ultimately did not reach their destination.
On Sunday, search teams found a backpack and other belongings believed to belong to the missing persons near the home of Amarildo Costa de Oliveira, one of the suspects in the disappearance, who has been in protective custody for several days.
The area in which both have disappeared is known as one of the most inaccessible in the region, housing not only the greatest concentration of uncontacted indigenous peoples, but also the scene of one of the largest routes by which the cocaine that enters circulates. Peru to be distributed to Europe.
Source: La Verdad
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