Luana Lourenço      Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília – A farmer (“agricultor”), Eremiliton Pereira dos Santos, was found dead at a farming/extraction settlement known as Praialta-Piranheira, in the town of Nova Ipixuna, in the state of Pará, on Saturday, May 28. Santos had been shot.

His body was discovered by Environmental Protection Institute (“Ibama”) agents who were inspecting the area. It was found about seven kilometers from where two other people, Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espirito Santo, who were environment activists, were murdered on May 24.

According to Pará Civil Police, Santos had been missing since May 26, and may have witnessed the assassination of Jose Claudio and Maria do Espirito Santo.

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English

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