Crime / 17 June 2022
Murder in the Amazon
A 10-day search for a missing British journo and a Brazilian Indigenous expert has ended after a local man admitted to killing the pair. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsarno had faced mounting international pressure to act on the disappearance of Dom Phillips and former government official Bruno Araújo Pereira in the Amazon. The men disappeared while researching conservation efforts in the region, work authorities described as “dangerous” given its intersection with illegal miners, loggers, and international drug dealers. Brothers Amarildo and Oseney da Costa de Oliveira were arrested, leading to the discovery of 2 bodies in the rainforest. Police are now working to identify the bodies, but they are thought to be the missing men.
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