Brasilia, June 13 (RHC)-- What are likely the bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who had been missing for more than a week in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, were found on Monday. 

The Guardian reports that the Brazilian ambassador to the U.K. broke the news to Phillips’s family in the U.K. during a phone call early on Monday.  

Over the weekend a search team has found items belonging to the two men. Brazilian federal police said Sunday they had found a backpack, laptop and clothes in the Javari Valley, a remote portion of the Amazon where the two were conducting research. 

The area is one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous territories and home to drug trafficking, poaching and illegal fishing networks.  This comes after police reported finding traces of blood in the boat of a fisherman who was arrested last week in connection to their disappearance.