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 ...

They are thought to live in three groups in both large communal huts and more informal shelters on the beach. First contact with the Sentinelese tribe was made by the British in the late 1800s ...

Located specifically within the Andaman Islands, this remote island is home to the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe that has fiercely resisted any interaction with the outside world for centuries.

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 ...

Outsiders meeting Sentinelese could endanger the tribe’s survival,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity as he isn’t authorized to speak about the case under investigation.

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 ...