<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1655344822818,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-fe9d-da96-ad7d-ffbf8a5c0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1655344822818,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017d-fe9d-da96-ad7d-ffbf8a5c0000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_55309821", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1033279"} }); ","_id":"00000181-6a3d-db25-adf7-7a3f6d8b0000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedA fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous affairs expert who went missing in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest, according to authorities.
Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, 41, was arrested last week and admitted to authorities to ambushing Dom Phillips, a longtime freelancer for the Guardian, and Brazilian researcher Bruno Araujo Pereira on an uninhabited portion of a river near the city of Atalaia do Norte, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
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“He confessed the practice of this crime and told us the details of where the bodies had been buried,” said Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, chief of federal police in the Amazonas state. “Upon proving that these remains are related to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, our plan is to return them as quickly as possible to family.”
The human remains have been recovered, and Fontes said they were sent for analysis.
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The pair was last seen June 5 in the Javari Valley in the western part of Amazonas. Phillips and Pereira were conducting research for a book about conservation efforts in the region at the time of their disappearance.
