UPDATE 1-Gold miners fire on Yanomami indigenous community in Brazil

UPDATE 1-Gold miners fire on Yanomami indigenous community in Brazil
Reuters
3 days ago
By Anthony Boadle
BRASILIA, May 11 (Reuters) - Illegal gold miners inside the Yanomami reservation in northern Brazil on Monday opened fire with automatic weapons on an indigenous community that has opposed their entry by river, a Yanomami leader said.
The Yanomami responded with bows and arrows and shotguns wounding four of the attackers during the 30-minute clash on Monday morning, Dario Kopenawa, head of the Yanomami's Hutukara Association said on Tuesday.
One indigenous person was grazed in the skirmish, he said in a report to the government's indigenous affairs agency Funai, the Brazilian army, federal prosecutors and police.

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