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Dom Phillips, a longtime freelancer for the Guardian, and Brazilian researcher Bruno Araujo Pereira, who were last seen June 5 in the Javari Valley in the western part of the state of Amazonas, are believed to be victims of “malice,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday.
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“The evidence leads us to believe that some malice was done to them because human viscera has already been found floating in the river, which is already in Brasilia for DNA testing,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with a local outlet, as reported by CNN.
Personal items belonging to the pair, as well as “biological traces,” were found and are in the process of being analyzed, Brazil’s Federal Police said Sunday.
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","_id":"00000181-5f60-d405-a3e7-dfe6507e0000","_type":"00000161-b425-d761-a563-f7e77e270000"}”>CNN segment”I pray to God that they find them alive, but the evidence suggests otherwise at the moment,” Bolsonaro told the outlet.
Brazilian authorities said last Wednesday that they had arrested a man in possession of drugs and ammunition used for illegal hunting. Blood was later found on a boat owned by a suspect in the missing men’s case.
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Phillips and Pereira were conducting research for a book about conservation efforts in the region at the time of their disappearance.
The region is known to be frequented by illegal miners, loggers, hunters, and international drug traffickers through the area’s large network of rivers.
