Miners who boasted about killing uncontacted Amazon tribe members now under investigation.
A few weeks ago, gold miners were overheard at a bar in Brazil talking boastfully about killing and stealing the belongings of between eight and 10 members of an uncontacted community in the Amazon.
Someone recorded that bar talk, and now the miners are the subjects of a federal investigation in Brazil.
The miners reportedly had in their possession a hand-carved paddle that most likely came from deep within the Amazon, according to the agency investigating the case.
According to reports, the group of remote tribe members were looking for food near a riverbank when they bumped into a group of miners.
And what's the understanding as to what happened, when these gold miners came into contact with these Indigenous tribe members?.
Without the fact that these miners had actually been bragging about what they had done, it may not have even been known that these tribe members were killed. »
