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Andrew Downie in São Paulo, Caio Barretto Briso in Rio de Janeiro and Tom Phillips in Tabatinga

Brazilian police say ‘no evidence of crime’ in search for missing journalist

Foreign correspondent Dom Phillips in Brazil on 16 November 2019.
Foreign correspondent Dom Phillips in Brazil in November 2019. Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira were last seen on Sunday. Photograph: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images

Authorities in the Amazon investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate have yet to find any evidence of a crime three days after the men went missing in a remote corner of the rainforest.

Police in the far west of Brazil said on Wednesday their inquiries into the disappearance of Dom Phillips, a longtime Guardian contributor, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, an advocate for Indigenous people, had led to the arrest of one man.

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