Brazilian authorities on Sunday found personal influences from British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian national Bruno Pereira, who went missing for a week in a remote area of the Amazon, Brazilian police said on Sunday.
“The missing items were found: a health card, black pants, black sandals and a pair of shoes belonging to Bruno Pereira, and a pair of shoes belonging to Dom Phillips and a backpack and personal clothing,” Federal said. Amazonas (northwestern Brazil) state police in a press release.
Earlier, Amazonas firefighters told the local press that they had found their missing personal belongings, “near the home” of Amarildo Costa de Oliveira, the only prisoner in the case.
The search teams traveled nearly 25 kilometers on the seventh day of work and were engaged in a “careful search of forest, area roads and flooded vegetation,” police said Sunday. Was found to belong to the suspect.
Dom Phillips, 57, a contributor to the British newspaper The Guardian, and Bruno Pereira, 41, an expert at the Brazilian government agency for domestic affairs (Funai), travel by boat through the Jawari Valley. West of Amazonas, conducting interviews for a book on environmental protection.
They were last seen on June 5 in the Sao Gabriel area, not far from their destination, the city of Atalia do Norte.
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