Brazilian Authorities Expect More Arrests After Fisherman Confesses to Killing Missing Men

Brazilian Authorities Expect More Arrests After Fisherman Confesses to Killing Missing Men
Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, 41, (C), is brought out of the courthouse by military and civil police officers in Atalia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 15, 2022. Edmar Barros/AP Photo
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MANAUS, Brazil—A fisherman confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in Brazil’s remote Amazon region and took police to a site where human remains were recovered, a federal investigator said after a grim 10-day search for the missing pair.

Authorities said Wednesday that they expected to make more arrests in the case of freelance reporter Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira of Brazil, who disappeared June 5. None had been made as of Thursday morning, but police said searches for the boat the two had used were about to restart.