Brazil police: Suspect confessed and led officers to two buried bodies in Amazon

A federal police officer escorts a suspect towards a river in the area where Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and freelance British journalist Dom Phillips disappeared (Edmar Barros/AP)

Brazil’s federal police say a suspect has confessed his responsibility in the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and led officers to where their bodies were buried.

Police investigator, officer Eduardo Alexandre Torres, told a news conference on Wednesday evening that the prime suspect in the case had detailed what happened to the pair who went missing on June 5.