New pictures of missing journalist Charlotte Peet released

Charlotte Peet, 32, vanished more than two weeks ago after flying to the country – where she had worked as a foreign correspondent – without telling her family.

Earlier this week investigators said she was seen boarding a bus from Sao Paulo to Rio after conflicting earlier reports said she had booked tickets but failed to make the journey.

The last known sighting of Charlotte has been confirmed as Morro da Babilonia, a hill in Rio’s Leme neighbourhood between Copacabana Beach and Botafogo.

Brazilian media outlet Globo published a photo of Charlotte it said was taken on February 15 at an unnamed beach bar on a street called Gustavo Sampaio Street.

It also published a snap of her on the bus she took from Sao Paulo’s Tiete Bus Terminal to Rio a week earlier.

Her father previously said she ‘boarded a plane to Sao Paulo and then the trail went cold’.

Her last known contact was on February 8, when she told a friend she was in Sao Paulo and was planning to go to Rio de Janeiro, asking about accommodation there.

Another friend, from Brazil, told Metro she did not believe Charlotte ‘got lost or did something dangerous’ because she knows both cities ‘very well’ and is fluent in Portuguese.

Local police previously thought the 32-year-old remained in Sao Paulo and have been scouring hospitals in the area.

But they now reportedly believe she boarded a bus to Rio, which is more than 250 miles away by road.

Sources told Brazilian broadcaster Jornal da Record she entered a bus at Tiete Bus Terminal, the city’s main hub for interstate coach travel.

Authorities are now combing through CCTV footage to figure out where she went afterwards.

Previous reports suggested investigators found evidence of a bus ticket purchase by Charlotte but did not believe she used it.

Mr Peet told Sky News last week of his daughter: ‘It’s very worrying but I don’t have any more to say, I’m very concerned but I just don’t know what’s going on, we’re just trying to pick up the pieces really.’

Revealing she had left the UK without telling her family, he added: ‘I wouldn’t say that it was normal, there was something on her mind obviously otherwise she would have let us know.’