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🚨 Developing story: Firefighters have encountered personal belongings of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who went missing a week ago during a research trip in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest.
- Among the items found were clothes and a photo ID belonging to Mr. Pereira, as well as a backpack of Mr. Phillips’s, which was tied to a partially submerged tree branch. reinforcing the hypothesis that the two men were victims of an ambush by local illegal fishermen.
- “It is almost a certainty that they are no longer with us,” said Maria Lúcia Sampaio, Mr. Phillips’s mother-in-law.
What next. Police are expected to take statements from more witnesses this week, and the government has until Wednesday to send the Supreme Court a report listing all its actions on...