Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing Amazon pair
Brazilian police have found two bodies in their search for the missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon.
At a Wednesday press briefing, police said they had discovered "human remains" at a site where they had been looking for the pair.
They were led there by a suspect who also confessed to having buried the bodies.
Phillips and Pereira were last seen on 5 June.
"Last night we obtained the confessions of the first of the two arrested suspects," said the regional police chief Eduardo Alexandre Fontes.
"[They] recounted in detail how the crime was committed and told us where the bodies had been buried," he added.
Police are working with Interpol to confirm the identities of the bodies.
"As soon as we have been able to verify, thanks to the expertise, that it is indeed the remains of the bodies of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, they will be returned to the families," said Fontes.
The police chief said the suspect, a 41-year-old fisherman named Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, admitted to having participated in the "crime", yet has not specified his exact role.
In a statement, Phillip's wife, Alessandra Sampaio, thanked "all the teams that carried out the research, especially the indigenous volunteers."
"Although we are still awaiting final confirmations, this tragic ending puts an end to the anguish of not knowing where Dom and Bruno were," said Sampaio. "Now we can take them home and say goodbye with love."
"Today, we also begin our fight for justice. We will only have peace when the necessary measures are taken to ensure that such tragedies do not happen again."
The ten-day search for the pair, which involved the military, police and local communities, has highlighted the dangers
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