The Amazon's last lost tribe: Never-before-seen pictures capture the lives of Peruvian nomads who are untouched by civilisation

 

Never-before-seen photographs of the Mashco Piro tribe have emerged, revealing previously untold secrets of their mysterious way of life. For at least 600 years the indigenous group has lived in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Peru and Brazil with no contact with the outside world. But logging, drug-trafficking and the government are putting new pressures on the mysterious tribe. As their ancestral land in the Amazonian rainforest is encroached on and their food sources threatened, the tribe has been forced to appear in public more frequently than ever before, leading to a spate of recent killings. They are apparently responsible for killing two men in three years by shooting them in the chest with a bow and arrow. In 2011 they killed local guide Shaco Flores, a Matsigenka Indian (pictured bottom left). Shaco had given them machetes, pots and pans for 20 years and had developed a good relationship with the clan. The Peruvian government has made the decision this week to initiate contact with the tribe - an act that is forbidden in Peruvian law. MAILONLINE

The Lagos State Police Command has arraigned a Father of one, Ojo Oluwasegun, before an Isolo Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a Tricycle.

Integrated Community Torch  gathered that the defendant has worked with the tricycle entrusted to him for three weeks, before absconding with it, the owner of the tricycle learnt of his disappearance when the defendant father, who stood as a guarantor , one Mr. Micheal Sunday Ojo, at number 8 Ojo street Mushin, reported the case of his son's disappearance to the police.
Oluwasegun was later arrested in Kwara state, where he allegedly ran to, while the tricycle is still missing.

The charge read, “That you, Olwasegun Ojo male on January 15 2015 in Mushin, allegedly did fraudulent act, making away with a tricycle, registration number EK1501QF, yellow in colour, valued at #399,000 entrusted to you  and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 285 (1) (10) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendant however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The presiding magistrate,Hon Mrs. J Ugbomoiko , admitted him to bail in the sum of N100,000  with two sureties in like sum. .
The case was adjourned till August 26.