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Peru National Police attacked unarmed amazonian Indigenous civilians in the Amazon region this morning - more than 38 killed, including 28 Indigenous and 10 police.

A further seven were still missing after the military moved to free them from protesters angry at plans to drill for oil and gas on ancestral land.

The hostages were taken on Friday during clashes near Bagua which left at least 22 tribesmen and 11 police dead.

A police official accused the protesters of killing the hostages.

This is the worst violence in Peru since the end of the Shining Path insurgency in the 1990s and the biggest internal challenge faced by President Alan Garcia since he came to power in 2006.

The natives killed also showed obvious bullet holes, especially in lower extremities and is presumed killed by bleeding.