Massacre in Amazon

AUTHORITIES are investigating the reported massacre of indigenous people from an Amazonian tribe by illegal miners in northwestern Brazil.

Federal police and the Public Prosecutor’s office were investigating the killings of an unspecified number of indigenous people reportedly killed in August in the Sao Paulo municipality of Olivenca, on the border with Peru and Colombia.

Although the report did not confirm the death toll, it cited other indigenous people as saying up to 20 tribal members were killed.