Massacre Toll Raised to 70
<i> Reuters</i>
BOA VISTA, Brazil —
Brazilian officials Saturday raised from 40 to 70 their estimate of the number of Yanomami Indians killed in an Amazon jungle massacre that officials blamed on wildcat gold miners. Manoel Reginaldo Tavares, an aide at the government Indian agency Funai in the Amazon state of Roraima, said the new estimate was reached after only five of the more than 70 people in the village were known to survive the attack.
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