SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A forensic examination has established that human remains found in the Amazon rainforest are those of British journalist Dom Phillips, Brazilian federal police said on Friday.
The remains of a second body, believed to be that of Brazilian expert on indigenous populations Bruno Pereira, is still being analyzed, CNN Brasil reported earlier.
The remains had been transported to Brasilia on Thursday for identification, after being found in the jungle by police, led to the scene by a fisherman who confessed to killing the two men.
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira disappeared on June 5 in the isolated Javari Valley, near the border with Peru and Colombia.
(Report Gabriel Araujo in Sao Paulo and Carolina Pulice in Mexico, French version Tangi Salaün)
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