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On Saturday, Brazilian federal police said they had arrested a third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest nearly two weeks ago.
Jeferson da Silva Lima surrendered to the Atalaiado Norte police station in the remote Javari valley adjacent to Peru and Colombia.
“The detainees will be cross-examined and referred to a custody hearing,” police said in a statement.
Forensic examinations of human bodies found in the area on Saturday confirmed that they belonged to Pereira. The wreckage of Phillips was confirmed on Friday.
Police arrest a second suspect in connection with a missing man in the Brazilian Amazon
Both were shot with hunting ammunition, police said, and Pereira shot her head once and her chest and abdomen twice. Phillips was shot by his torso.
British journalist DOM Phillips Missing: Two bodies found in the Brazilian Amazon.Pending identification
Phillips, a freelance reporter who wrote for the Guardian and the Washington Post, was studying the book on a trip with Pereira, a former chief of a recently contacted tribe isolated at Funai, a federal indigenous affairs agency.
They disappeared on June 5th while traveling together in the area by boat.
Police have so far arrested fisherman Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, who confessed to having killed two men, and his brother Oseny da Costa, who was detained earlier this week.
Federal police said on Friday that the murderers acted alone, but a local indigenous group, Univaha, was active in the Javanese Valley, a wilderness area that seduced cocaine smugglers and illegal hunters and fishermen. He said he was repeatedly talking to the authorities about the criminal organization he was in.
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