REUTERS: Brazil Indigenous Agency Worker Killed in Remote Amazon Town
Maxciel Pereira dos Santos, a worker for an agency that defends Brazil’s indigenous people, was murdered in front of his family execution-style in the Amazon town of Tabatinga. Santos, who worked at the Brazilian indigenous protection agency FUNAI, was shot twice in the head last week as he rode a motorbike down the main road in Tabatinga. The town is located deep in the Amazon rainforest on Brazil’s border with Peru and Columbia, according to the the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. RELATED STORY: Record Number of Fires Burning in Amazon Rainforest INA (a union group representing workers at...
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