Brazil Police Arrest 5 More in Murders of British Journalist, Amazon Expert

Brazil Police Arrest 5 More in Murders of British Journalist, Amazon Expert
People attend a memorial service for indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips, who were murdered in the Amazon, in Sao Paulo, Brazil on July 16, 2022. Suamy Beydoun/Reuters
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BRASILIA—Brazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested five more men in an investigation into the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in June.

Police said in a statement that seven arrest warrants were issued for illegal fishing in the Vale do Javari region, the remote area close to the border with Colombia and Peru where Phillips and Pereira disappeared on June 5.