Brazil to step up removal of indigenous land invaders after Yanomami killing
Gold miners killed one man and seriously injured two others in an attack on Saturday in the Yanomami territory, where authorities have been evicting illegal miners who invaded Brazil's largest indigenous reservation, the size of Portugal.
She said about 80% of the more than 20,000 gold miners that invaded the reservation had been evicted and those still there were resisting removal more violently. "We will intensify the operation," she said, adding that the armed forces could be deployed to finish the job.
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