Massacre leaves six indigenous people dead at Nicaraguan nature reserve
by Reuters in Managua from on (#4YNY9)
- Shooting of Mayangnas believed linked to land dispute
- Settlers have been encroaching on protected Bosawis area
Six indigenous people have been killed and other 10 kidnapped after scores of armed men raided an isolated Nicaraguan nature reserve in an attack linked to raging land disputes.
About 80 attackers stormed a Mayangna commune about 500km (310 miles) north of capital Managua, deep in the north-central Bosawis Biosphere Reserve, the second-largest rainforest in the Americas after the Amazon.
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