Police say remains found in Brazilian Amazon belong to Dom Phillips

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Forensic tests carried out on human remains found in the Brazilian Amazon have confirmed that they belonged to Dom Phillips, the British journalist who went missing with the Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.

Brazil's federal police said late on Friday that it could confirm that the remains of Dom Phillips are part of the [human] material" found on Wednesday after an 11-day search along the banks of the Itaquai river. They had been buried in a densely forested area two hours from the nearest town.