The freelance journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post and The New York Times was last seen in a remote jungle area on the Peru/Colombia border, home to the world's largest number of uncontacted indigenous people.
Brazilian search teams have found"apparently human" remains in the Amazonian rainforest river where a British journalist was last seen.along with blood found on a suspect's boatJournalist Dom Phillips and travel companion, indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, went missing after visiting fisherman Amarildo da Costa's riverside community of Sao Gabriel.
A Brazilian judge has ordered Mr Costa, charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition, to beSearch teams have been looking for the missing pair along the Itacoai River Police have said Mr Costa, known locally as Pelado, was one of the last people to see Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.Detectives on the case told the Reuters news agency they are focusing on"poachers and illegal fisherman in the area" as they often clashed with Mr Pereira, who as a senior official with government indigenous agency Funai, had organised patrols of the local reservation.
Mr Costa's lawyers and family maintain he fished legally on the river and denied he had any role in the men's disappearance.
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