The Brazilian ambassador to the United Kingdom announced the news to the Phillips family in the United Kingdom during a telephone conversation early Monday.
Him detection of two bodies in the investigation for the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian expert in the Amazon Bruno Pereira missing in the Amazon, Brazilian media reported.
The Brazilian ambassador to the United Kingdom announced the news to the Phillips family in the United Kingdom during a telephone conversation early Monday.
“He said he wanted us to know that… they had found two bodies,” said Paul Sergund, Phillips’s brother-in-law. “He did not describe the location and just said it was in the rainforest and said they were tied to a tree and had not yet been identified.” Sergund added: “He said that if possible they would make an identification.”
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared on 5 June while traveling by boat in a reportage in the remote Amazon rainforest.
Clothes and personal belongings belonging to both men were discovered earlier by the Brazilian police.
Local groups say both men had received threats for their work in favor of indigenous rights in the area.
Both Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were known for their deep knowledge of the area. Phillips lived in Brazil for more than a decade and was a longtime contributor to the Guardian. Pereira, a former high-ranking official with the Federal Funai Indigenous Protection Service, was an expert on isolated tribes in the Amazon and researched a book.
Days before their disappearance, the natives reported that and the two men had been threatened for their research in the local area, where there is illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking.
