Two brothers are being investigated in the hunt for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, local reports say.
Brazilian soldiers have been looking for the missing men in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest, near the border with Peru
Alex Perez, a police investigator, said Oseney da Costa de Oliveira "did not resist arrest on suspicion of homicide, based on witness accounts that placed the two suspects at the supposed scene of the crime". Days before the pair went missing, indigenous groups say Mr Pereira was threatened for campaigning against illegal fishing in the area.Speaking to the BBC earlier this week, Mr Phillips' sister, Sian, said: "I think it's likely they've been ambushed by some illegal criminal activity there, possibly to do with illegal fishing.
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