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The moment natives from Amazonian tribe who were driven out of the jungle by logging and drug traffickers meet the outside world.
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First contact: The moment natives from Amazonian tribe who were driven out of the jungle by logging and drug traffickers meet the outside world
- Young men thought to be part of 50-strong group along Brazil's Envira River
- They were 'driven away after homes were set alight and they were shot at'
- Natives spoke of vultures eating bodies of relatives they were unable to bury
- Some then contracted the flu and had to be treated by government medics
- It is believed cocaine-growing gangs on Brazil-Peru border are responsible
- People are also being pushed out by oil and gas mining and illegal logging
- Campaigner: 'The latest situation is really serious and deeply worrying'
