According to the civilian police quoted by the G1 portal, the boat was found last night in this tributary near the municipality of Cachoeira, municipality of Atalaia do Norte, within the territorial division.
The location was given by Jeferson da Silva Lima, aka Pelado da Dinha, who was arrested on Saturday.
According to the Federal Police (PF), the boat was at a depth of about 20 meters, overturned with six sandbags to make it difficult to float.
During the five-hour operation, four drums belonging to an employee of The Guardian newspaper were found next to the boat’s hull, a Yamaha engine, three on land and one underwater.
The PF reported that the boat will undergo the necessary expert surveys over the next few days to try to understand the murder.
Phillips and Aráujo were last seen on June 5 in the Amazon community of Sao Rafael in the indigenous lands of the Javari Valley, from where they left for Atalaia del Norte, although they did not reach their destination.
The remains of the 57-year-old reporter turned up in an area specified by imprisoned fisherman Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, known as Pelado, who confessed to finding the bodies near Atalaia do Norte in a remote forest on the banks of the Itacoaí to have buried .
Another arrested suspect is Pelado’s brother, Oseney Oliveira, nicknamed Dos Santos. Police specialists are still finding out if he shot the duo or helped hide the bodies.
The PF also reported this Sunday that in addition to the three detained, five other suspects involved in covering up the remains of the victims have been identified.
This identification of human feces was made possible by the examination of the dental arch carried out by experts from the National Institute of Criminalists of the PF in Brasilia.
In a statement, the experts pointed out that the techniques made it possible to determine that the indigenista had received shots in the head and chest and the communicator in the chest.
They stated that Phillips’ death was “caused by thoracoabdominal trauma from a shot with typical multi-pellet hunting ammunition, causing injuries primarily to the abdomen and chest.”
The tragedy caused outrage around the world and sparked criticism of the government of far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, which has been accused of encouraging invasions of indigenous heritage and threatening the preservation of the Amazon by encouraging its economic exploitation.
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