World’s most isolated tribe kills two loggers for wandering onto land deep in Amazon

Members of of the world’s most remote and uncontacted indigenous tribes have killed two loggers suspected of encroaching their land deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
The two workers have been shot and killed with arrows fired by members of the Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe in Peru, according to the indigenous peoples’ rights group FENAMAD. 
The Mascho Piro, who lives in the rainforests in the Madre de Dios regions in southeastern Peru, is believed to be one of the largest uncontacted tribes in the world with more than 750 people.
The attack unfolded on August 29 in the Pariamanu river, where a group of loggers were expanding their passageways into the forest and came into contact with the tribe.
Two other loggers in the attack went missing and another was injured, FENAMAD said, adding that rescue efforts were underway.
FENAMAD, a nonprofit group that defends the rights of Peru’s Indigenous peoples, said that tensions between loggers and indigenous tribes are on the rise and the government had done little to protect the latter’s territory. 
“The Peruvian state has not taken preventive and protective measures to ensure the lives and integrity of the workers who have been gravely affected,” the group said in a statement on Tuesday. 
The attack comes a few weeks after the tribe have used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of stealing timber inside their territory, seriously injuring one in the attack. 
The group said that even though they advised the government of the risk of a rise in violence, nothing has been done.
“It’s a heated and tense situation,” Cesar Ipenza, an Amazon-based lawyer who specializes in environmental law in Peru, said.
“Undoubtedly, every day there are more tensions between Indigenous peoples in isolation and the different activities that are within the territory that they ancestrally pass through.”
Their existence grabbed headlines across the world in July when rare images were taken by indigenous rights group Survival International, showing the members of the Mashco Piro looking for food near the community of Monte Salvado.