If he'd been successful, he might have spread a deadly disease to the Sentinelese people—or gotten himself killed.

An American tourist has been arrested after allegedly traveling to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal and attempting to ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a 24-year-old US YouTuber, was arrested for entering Andaman's North Sentinel Island, home to the world's most isolated tribe. No one visits the island because of the ...

Police said Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was arrested after he 'left the offerings on the shore, collected sand samples ...

A U.S. tourist sneaked onto a highly restricted island carrying a coconut and a can of Diet Coke to a tribe untouched by the modern world, police said.

Chau paid local fishermen to take him near North Sentinel Island, evading the exclusion zone. He reportedly hoped to convert the Sentinelese to Christianity, describing his mission in diary ...

Chau, from Vancouver, Washington, tried to sing religious songs to them. Warning shots from the skilled Sentinelese hunters failed to deter him — even when one struck his waterproof Bible ...

Chau was a US missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese when he arrived on the island. Pronob Sircar, the Tribal Welfare Officer, who lodged a complaint with police told The Sun: "I came to ...

Speaking after Chau's death, anthropologist T N Pandit, who led a number of 'friendly contact' expeditions to the island, said that the first instincts of the Sentinelese was not to kill.

I think he was inspired by John Chau. Sentinelese are a very isolated and mysterious tribe and that has encouraged him to go there and capture them.” Viktorovych sailed across a 25-mile strait ...