"Two Yanomami boys drown in Brazilian river used by illegal gold miners", 15 October 2021

...Two Yanomami children drowned in a river on their reservation where illegal gold miners operate a dredger, an indigenous leader said on Thursday, alleging the boys were sucked into the machine as they bathed.

Rescue divers flown in by helicopter recovered the body of a 7-year-old boy hours after a 5-year-old had been found drowned in the Parima river near the village of Makuxi Yano in northern Brazil...

Dario Kopenawa, vice president of the Hutukara Yanomami Association, said via social media that the boys were playing in the river on Tuesday when they disappeared after getting too close to a dredger about 300 meters (yards) from their village...

The government's indigenous affairs agency Funai said it was cooperating with the authorities in the case. The Federal police did not reply to a request for comment.

An estimated 20,000 miners are working illegally in the vast territory where 25,000 Yanomami live, polluting the rivers with mercury used to separate the gold from sand, Kopenawa said...