Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North ...

Their boat drifted ashore and the sailors were killed by the Sentinelese. In the wake of the devastating tsunami that rocked the Indian Ocean in December 2014, the Indian National Coast used a ...

Before this, in 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed by the Sentinelese after he attempted to make contact with them. 24-Year-Old US National Arrested For Entering Restricted North ...

Maxar closeup satellite imagery of North Sentinel Island, which is one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. The island is a protected area of India. It is home to ...

The 24-year-old US national Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov ... home to an estimated 100 Sentinelese inhabitants. His “meticulously planned” trip involved multiple scouting excursions and ...

It’s illegal to travel to the island to protect the Sentinelese people, who have long shunned interaction with the outside world. The director of Survival International, Caroline Pearce ...

In 2006, the Sentinelese had killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore. Indian officials have limited contacts to rare “gift-giving” encounters, with small teams of ...