He said the survivors told the villagers that they had been out hunting at the time of the attack, which they blamed on miners from nearby Brazil. The hunters said they heard gunshots, explosions and the sound of a helicopter, which miners sometimes use to ferry supplies, Ahiwei said.
"Those who were hunting returned to the forest, running with fear, and they stayed in the forest," Ahiwei said.
He said that according to the survivors' account, the miners attacked because some in the community had been "rescuing Yanomami women" from miners......
The Yanomami have often had to contend with Brazilian gold miners, known in Portuguese as garimpeiros, who for years have crossed into Venezuela and torn up the forest, leaving pits of water laced with mercury.
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