BRAZILIAN police have been accused of a massacre of indigenous people in the country’s midwestern Mato Grosso do Sul state in a bid to force them off their land. 

Attacks took place over the weekend as military police arrived on land and by helicopter, destroying homes and shooting members of the Guarani community of Guapo’y.

The number of tribespeople killed has not been determined, but two youths are believed to be among the dead and another adult has been named as Vitor Fernandes.