The suspect confessed and led a police officer to two buried bodies in Amazon.

Brazilian federal police say the suspect has taken responsibility for the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, and took police to the place where the body was buried.

Police investigator Eduardo Alexandre Torres said at a press conference Wednesday night that the prime suspect had detailed what happened to the missing pair on June 5. rice field.

Torres said the suspect confessed to the “crime” without pinpointing exactly what was admitted, but added that he took police to the scene on Wednesday and recovered the body.

The remains have not yet been clearly identified, Torres said.

“We found a corpse 3 kilometers (about 2 miles) in the woods,” the investigator said.

He said other arrests would be made soon.

The announcement was made shortly after the Brazilian Justice Minister stated that police had found human bodies in an Amazon search, but they had not yet been identified.

Torres said the human body was found in a remote area of ​​the Amazon near where British journalist indigenous expert Bruno Pereira disappeared on June 5.

“I’ve just been informed by federal police that’the remains of a person were found where the digging was taking place,'” he said on Twitter. “They are submitted to forensic medicine.”

🚨🚨 Acabodeser informadopela @policiafederal que “remanescentes humanosforamencontrados no local, onde estavamsendo feitasase scavações”. Elesserão submetidos à perícia. Ainda hoje, osresponsáveispelas investigações farão umaentrevista coletivaem Manaus.

— Anderson Torres (@andersongtorres) June 15, 2022

Early Wednesday, police officers took the suspect to a search team looking for Mr. Phillips, 57, and Mr. Pereira, 41.

Pereira’s colleagues called all night outside the headquarters of the Brazilian Government’s Indigenous Peoples Agency in Brasília.

Indigenous experts left the agency when they disappeared on June 5 while traveling with Phillips, a British freelance journalist and regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper.

They were finally seen on a boat in the river near the entrance to the indigenous territory of the Javanese Valley, which borders Peru and Colombia. There are fierce conflicts between fishermen, poachers and government agencies in the area.

The Associated Press photographer at Ataraia de Norte witnessed police carrying a suspect dressed in a hood on a boat.