Massacre leaves six indigenous people dead at Nicaraguan nature reserve

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Shooting of Mayangnas believed linked to land dispute
Settlers have been encroaching on protected Bosawás area

Six indigenous people have been killed and other 10 kidnapped when 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 Bosawás Biosphere Reserve, the second-largest rainforest in the Americas after the Amazon. Continue reading...

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