COPS in Brazil are investigating claims 10 members of a remote Amazonian tribe were hacked to death by ruthless gold miners out to seize their land.

A complaint has been filed with prosecutors in South America after the alleged killers went into a bar and bragged about what they had done.

5 An isolated Amazonian tribe discovered near the Peruvian border in Brazil Credit: Reuters

5 More than 50 indigenous people were killed in Brazil in the first six months of 2017

5 The miners are said to have been desperate to seize the tribe's gold-filled land Credit: Getty - Contributor

It's reported they were showing off a hand-carved paddle they claimed they had taken from the tribe based near the Colombian border.

“It was crude bar talk,” said Leila Silvia Burger Sotto-Maior, of the Brazilian agency on indigenous affairs (Funai).

“They even bragged about cutting up the bodies and throwing them in the river,” she said.

The miners, she said, claimed that “they had to kill them or be killed.”

Ms Sotto-Maior said the brutal killings were reported to have taken place last month.