Several dozen heavily armed miners dressed in military fatigues invaded an indigenous village in remote northern Brazil this week and fatally stabbed at least one of the community’s leaders, officials said... The killing comes as miners and loggers are making increasingly bold and defiant incursions into protected areas, including indigenous territories, with the explicit encouragement of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Officials warned the conflict could escalate in the coming hours. Mr. Bolsonaro has said that indigenous communities are in control of vast territories that should be opened up to industries to make them profitable. Land invasions in indigenous territories are on the rise across Brazil, where indigenous leaders say they regularly come under threat by miners, loggers and farmers... Leaders of the Wajãpi indigenous community made urgent pleas to the federal government on Saturday, warning that the conflict... risked turning into a blood bath... Rodolfe Rodrigues, the senator,...who belongs to... [the] opposition..., said Mr. Bolsonaro’s views... on the rights of native communities had put [them] in mortal danger....A representative for the president declined to comment ...Mr. Rodrigues identified the slain indigenous leader as Emyra Wajãpi. He said the miners tossed his body in a river after stabbing him to death....