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Andrew Downie in São Paulo and Tom Phillips in Atalaia do Norte

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing men

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June, at the end of a four-day trip down the Itaquaí river in the far west of Brazil.
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing on 5 June, at the end of a four-day trip down the Itaquaí river in the far west of Brazil. Composite: João Laet/AFP/Getty Images (left); Daniel Marenco/Agência O Globo (right)

Police in the Brazilian Amazon have found the bodies of two men in the area close to where British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira went missing 10 days ago.

At a press briefing late on Wednesday, regional police chief Eduardo Fontes said one of the two men arrested in connection with the pair’s disappearance had confessed to killing them.

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