© Reuters. Federal Cops carry a coffin containing human stays after a suspect confessed to killing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous professional Bruno Pereira and led police to the situation of stays, on the headquarters of the Federa
By Gabriel Araujo and Carolina Pulice
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A forensic examination carried out on human stays discovered within the Amazon (NASDAQ:) rainforest confirmed on Friday that they belonged to British journalist Dom Phillips, native broadcaster CNN Brasil reported, citing unnamed federal police sources.
The affirmation got here following a dental arch examination, the report stated, including {that a} DNA check was nonetheless being carried out as a double test.
A second physique, believed to be that of indigenous professional Bruno Pereira, was nonetheless beneath evaluation, CNN Brasil stated.
Brazil’s federal police has not confirmed the report.
The stays arrived in Brasilia on Thursday for identification.
Pereira and Phillips vanished on June 5 within the distant Javari Valley bordering Peru and Colombia. Earlier this week, police recovered human stays from a grave within the jungle the place they have been led by a fisherman who confessed to killing the 2 males.
Phillips, a contract reporter who had written for the Guardian and the Washington Put up, was doing analysis for a guide on the journey with Pereira, a former head of remoted and just lately contacted tribes at federal indigenous affairs company Funai.
In an announcement on Friday, police stated the investigation recommended the crime concerned extra people past the suspect who confessed to the murders, however that to this point the killers are believed to have acted with out the involvement of a legal group.
“The investigations point out that the killers acted alone, with no bosses or legal group behind the crime,” police stated.
Native indigenous group Univaja stated, nevertheless, that it had knowledgeable the federal police quite a few instances since late 2021 that there was an organized crime group working within the Javari Valley.
“The cruelty of the crime makes clear that Pereira and Phillips crossed paths with a robust legal group that attempted in any respect prices to cowl its tracks throughout the investigation,” stated Univaja, which performed a number one function within the search.
INA, a union representing staff at Funai, shared the view.
“Everyone knows that violence within the Javari Valley is linked to a large chain of organized crime,” it stated in a separate assertion.
Police stated they have been nonetheless looking for the boat Phillips and Pereira have been touring in after they have been final seen alive, and that extra folks might be arrested.
