‘Idiotic’ US tourist who left Diet Coke for remote Andaman Islands tribe that killed last visitor is YouTube daredevil who visited Taliban

The American tourist who was arrested visiting a remote tribe that has no contact with the outside world and left a can of Diet Coke as an “offering” is a thrill-seeking YouTuber who previously visited the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Influencer Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, who has been branded “idiotic,” traveled for nine hours in a small rubber dinghy with an outboard motor to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, where tried to get the native people’s attention by blowing a whistle and leaving soda and a coconut as tribute.

North Sentinel Island is home to one of the world’s most isolated tribes, the Sentinelese people, who are all but untouched by outsiders. The last person to

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