Four people shot in new attack to Indigenous land in Brazil


  • World
  • Sunday, 05 Jan 2025

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organization said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.

Attackers opened fire against the Indigenous community near the city of Guaira, in the southern Parana state, injuring four people, later hospitalized, the police said.

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