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    A suspect confesses to killing pair missing in Amazon, police say

    Police say they arrested a second suspect identified as a brother of the main suspect in the deaths of an Indigenous expert and British journalist.
    by The Associated Press Jun 16, 2022 4 minutes

    MANAUS, Brazil — A federal police investigator said Wednesday night a suspect confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a journalist in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried.

    Police said at a news conference in the Amazon city of Manaus that the prime suspect in the case confessed Tuesday night and detailed what happened to the pair who went missing June 5. They said other arrests would be made soon in the case, but gave no details.

    The federal investigator, Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, said Amarildo da Costa

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