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Brazilian police say possible human remains have been found their search for UK journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Araújo Pereira as the sole suspect's family accuse police of torture.
The "organic material" is being sent for forensic analysis, federal police said in a statement, along with blood found on a suspect's boat that will be compared with genetic material from freelance journalist Dom Phillips and his travel companion, indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. A Brazilian judge had already ordered the suspect, a fisherman charged with illegal possession of restricted ammunition, to be held for a further 30 days while police investigate whether he is involved, according to a lawyer for a local indigenous organization.
A man who was arrested following the disappearance of a freelance British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest will be held for 30 days in temporary custody.
(Removes second reference to full names of Phillips and Pereira in paragraph 5)