Fears are mounting for the fate of Dom Phillips, 57, and Bruno Pereira, 41, a respected indigenous expert, who disappeared on Sunday after being threatened during a research trip to Brazil’s Javari Valley, a remote area. of the jungle that has seen a wave of illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking. Emergency services official Geonivan Maciel said investigators now have a new lead in the case: a suspicious site with “overturned land” in a community called Cachoeira, on the banks of the Itaquai River, where the men were last seen. “It’s like someone dug something on the spot, buried something there,” Maciel said. “We will do a scan at the bottom to verify … We can not say that there is clear evidence, but we will see if there is anything there that could determine something about the two missing.”
