Brazil police question fishermen over missing British journalist, indigenous expert

FILE PHOTO: A photograph shows British journalist Dom Phillips, who went missing while reporting in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon rainforest near the border with Peru, in Brazil, in this picture taken on December 2009 and obtained by Reuters on June 7, 2022. Paul Sherwood/Handout via REUTERS

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest have questioned a possible suspect among several fishermen known to have clashed with authorities earlier over fishing rights.

Dom Phillips, a freelancer who has written for the Guardian, the Washington Post and other well known publications, was last seen on Sunday along with Bruno Pereira, a former senior official with federal indigenous agency Funai.