The man admitted to killing a British journalist in Brazil

A federal police investigator said Wednesday that an arrested man has confessed to shooting an Indian activist and a British journalist in a remote part of the Amazon and then taking police officers to the place where their bodies were buried.

The main suspect in the case testified Tuesday night and described what happened to the missing tribesmen Bruno Pereira and journalist Tom Phillips on June 5, police said at a news conference in Manas, Amazon.

Federal investigator Eduardo Alexandre Torres said Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as “Bellato”, told agents he used a gun to kill Pereira and Phillips.

Belarus, 41, took police Wednesday to the scene where human remains were recovered, Torres said.

The remains have not yet been identified, Torres added.

“We found the bodies about 3 kilometers away in the woods,” the investigator said.

He assured that action would be taken to arrest some more people in this case soon.

Gilherm Torres, another agent with the Amazonas State Police, said the boat on which the victims were traveling had not yet been located, but that those involved in the case knew the area where it was allegedly hidden.

“They put earthen sacks in it to sink the boat,” he said.

As federal police announced they were holding a press conference, Pereira’s colleagues called for an alert outside the office of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) in Brasilia.

Pereira was licensed by a Brazilian government-owned agency.

Pereira, 41, and Phillips, 57, were last seen in their boat on the river near the entrance to the Valle del Javari Native Territory on the border with Peru and Colombia.

Violent clashes broke out between fishermen, poachers and government officials in the area.

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