An American tourist has been arrested after allegedly traveling to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal and attempting to contact one of the world’s most isolated groups of indigenous people.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, is accused of landing on North Sentinel Island in an apparent move to link with the remote Sentinelese tribe, filming his visit and leaving a can of Coke and a coconut on the shore.
North Sentinel Island is often described as the “hardest place to visit in the world”. It is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal which also includes South Sentinel Island.
The accused allegedly took a single-seat boat to the restricted area – the same spot American missionary John
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