Pimenta Bueno -The Civil Police hasnt been concluded the investigations of the caciques murder Deusmar Ferreira Saquirabiar, so-called Damião “. He was killed by four shots, on June 23rd, in the around the bus station of Pimenta Buenos town.
Among the probable reasons for the crime they are the dispute of lands and the illegal exploration of wood in the victims indigenous area.
The Police have already analyzed the images recorded by the internal circuit of TV installed in the bus station; they didnt publish the result of the work, however.
The cacique was one of the leaders of the Mequéns reservation, in Alta Floresta town. Damiãos indigenous area has been explored by lumbermen and there is some information that he would have set a time so that the lumbermen could leave the place, threatening to denounce them to the Federal Police.
Source: Amazoniainview