World IN BRIEF : BRAZIL : Gold Miners Blamed in Indian Massacre
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gold miners killed and dismembered more than 20 Yanomami Indians, including 10 children, in a remote Amazon village, the government said. A mining advocate denied responsibility for the massacre, which took place in Roraima state near the Venezuelan border. Miners have been seeking gold, diamonds and other wealth in the land of the Yanomami Indians, a Stone Age tribe, despite government efforts to remove them.
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