Divers searching for a missing British journalist and his colleague have found a backpack and laptop in a remote part of the Amazon.near the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which is in western Brazil near the borders of Peru and Colombia.
The two men were in the Sao Rafael community and were returning by boat to the nearby city of Atalaia do Norte, but they never arrived. Local volunteers, the army, civil defence officials and state police have been searching for them andThe backpack was tied to a tree that was half-submerged, as it is flood season in the region. That and the laptop were retrieved by police and brought by boat to Atalaia do Norte.A police statement said clothing belonging to Mr Pereira had been found, including a health identification card in his name, and a backpack with clothes belonging to Mr Phillips, and the boots of both men.
Police have already found traces of blood in the boat of a fisherman, Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado, who has been arrested and is the only suspect so far.
get out of the amazon, she belongs to Brazil.. get out 'gringos'... why don't you go 'photograph' the American Indians or the Alaskan 'Eskimos'?
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