Elusive Amazon tribe uses arrows to kill miners

Members of a remote Amazon rainforest indigenous tribe have shot dead six gold miners with arrows, Brazilian officials said on Friday. Brazil’s Funai agency, which handles indigenous affairs, said that the killings were carried out by the Yanomami tribe in the Amazonian state of Roraima on the frontier with Venezuela. The Yanomami are one of the Amazon’s largest relatively isolated tribes, with an estimated population of about 35,000, according to advocacy group Survival International. Their pristine ancestral lands have been steadily encroached upon by illegal gold miners who are blamed for introducing new diseases and polluting the rivers and forest.