Gold miners ‘massacred’ uncontacted Amazon tribe

Miners allegedly boasted of ‘cutting up’ at least ten indigenous people

Uncontacted tribe in Peruvian Amazon
Members of the uncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians photographed from a tourist boat in the Amazon in August 2011
(Image credit: © G. Galli/ Survival/ uncontactedtribes.org)

Brazilian authorities have launched an investigation into a group of gold miners who allegedly boasted of killing members of an “uncontacted” Amazon tribe.

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