Indigenous leader killed in central-western Brazil

SAO PAULO (AP) Police say a leader of Brazil's Guarani-Kaiowa tribe was stabbed to death, apparently by his father-in-law.

Caarapo town's chief police inspector Benjamin Law says Ambrosio Vilhalva was attacked Sunday night as he approached his house.

Law said by telephone on Tuesday that Vilhalva "stumbled into his home and just before dying he told his wife who his killer was."

Law says the victim's father-in-law Ricardo Mendes Quevedo, has been arrested. He denies killing Vilhalva.

The police inspector declined to provide further details

Brazil-based indigenous rights group CIMI says Vilhalva campaigned for the demarcation of the Guarani-Kaiowa's ancestral lands in the central-western state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Vilhalva starred in the 2008 film "Birdwatchers" on his tribe's struggle to return to its ancestral lands.