Brazilian police say search teams have discovered belongings of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira who went missing in the Amazon rainforest a week ago.
Thomson ReutersA police officer loads a truck with items found during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Sunday.
A firefighter leading a search team told reporters that the Equinox backpack, containing clothes and a laptop, was found tied to a half-sunken tree trunk in the area that the two men were last seen on Sunday, June 5. The two men were on a reporting trip in the remote jungle area near the border with Peru and Colombia that is home to the world's largest number of uncontacted Indigenous people. The wild and lawless region has lured cocaine-smuggling gangs, along with illegal loggers, miners and hunters.
A firefighter holds a cell phone with a picture showing the moment when a backpack was found in Atalaia do Norte on Sunday.President Jair Bolsonaro, who last year faced tough questioning from Phillips at news conferences about weakening environmental law enforcement in Brazil, said last week that the two men "were on an adventure that is not recommended" and suggested that they could have been executed.
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