Three suspects have already been arrested by police in connection with the murders of the two men.
Brazilian news outlet O Globo reports that the five new suspects allegedly also helped to hide the bodies in a hard-to-reach area which police would have been unlikely to find if they had not been guided to it.. Mr Phillips was shot once, while Mr Pereira was shot three times, police added.Mr Phillips - a regular contributor to the Guardian - was researching a book on the Amazon region.
The Javari Valley region in which the two were travelling is home to thousands of indigenous people from more than 20 groups who live in isolation from the outside world.Violent conflicts between these various criminal groups, government agents and indigenous people are known to happen, and were reportedly being documented by Mr Phillips and Mr Pereira.More on this story
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