‘Uncontacted’ Amazon tribe kill two loggers with bows and arrows | World | News

An uncontacted Amazon tribe has killed two loggers in an arrow attack while two other people are missing.

The workers were targeted in the Madre de Dios region of the rainforest while they were opening a trail there.

Members of the indigenous Mashco Piro attacked the workers near the Pariamanu River.

FENAMAD, an organisation that represents more than 30 communities in the region, has lobbied the government to try and protect the indigenous communities in the forest.

In August, Mashco Piro members injured one person with an arrow attack.

NGO Survival International has warned that the tribe has been moving outside of its territory in recent months.

Images have previously shown the group walking around with spears in the remote forests of Peru.

Survival International director Caroline Pearce said: “These incredible images show that a large number of isolated Mashco Piro live alone a few miles from where the loggers are about to start their operations.”

Mashco Piro members have also been sighted in Brazil.

Rosa Padilha, at the Brazilian Catholic bishops’ Indigenous Missionary Council, said: “They flee from loggers on the Peruvian side.

“At this time of the year they appear on the beaches to take (Amazon turtle) eggs. That’s when we find their footprints on the sand. They leave behind a lot of turtle shells.

“They are a people with no peace, restless, because they are always on the run.”

Survival International is urging the Peruvian government and other administrations in South America to help protect these indigenous communities because many of they face extinction.

Deforestation of the Amazon has destroyed many habitats for tribes and wildlife alike.