Brazilian police have arrested a second suspect in the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous official Bruno Pereira in a remote Amazon area. Mr Phillips, 57, and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, 41, vanished from a remote part of the Amazon last week and are believed to have last been seen early on June 5 in the Sao Rafael community.
The suspect, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, 41, is a fisherman and a brother of the man so far considered by police as the main suspect in the case, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also 41, nicknamed Pelado. Federal police also said in a statement they seized ammunition and an oar, but did not say why the items were confiscated, who they belonged to or where they were found.
Mr De Oliveira told The Associated Press last Friday that he had visited Pelado in jail and was told that local police had tortured Pelado on his own boat, which was also seized by authorities. Federal police did not immediately respond to an AP request asking why Oseney da Costa de Oliveira was named in its statement, which is not a standard procedure of the force.
