Brazilian police have launched a criminal investigation into the disappearance of a British journalist in the Amazon jungle.
Dom Phillips went missing on Sunday with Bruno Araujo Pereira, a local indigenous expert and former government official whose job was to protect Brazil’s uncontacted tribes.
Officers have interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen Mr Phillips, a freelancer who has written for The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other publications.
Guilherme Torres, the head of the interior department of Amazonas state’s civil police, told Reuters that Mr Pereira had recently received a threatening letter from a local fisherman who police were trying to locate.
He said his colleagues had interviewed two fishermen as witnesses on Monday, with two more quizzed on Tuesday.
The first two witnesses had not provided any useful information, and Mr Torres had no details as yet about the second two interviews.
