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Maryam Khanum

Tourist Trying to Contact Remote Tribe With a Can of Coke For an 'Offering' Arrested in Same Spot Where Missionary Was Killed

An American tourist was arrested after risking his life to leave a can of soda as a tribute to an isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This is a representational image. (Credit: Artem Beliaikin/Unsplash)

An American tourist risked his life to leave a can of soda and a coconut as a tribute to an isolated tribe in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, only for them to completely ignore him.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, visited the restricted North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean after traveling there illegally on a single-seat boat. The last outsider who attempted to visit the reclusive Sentinelese tribe was American missionary John Allen Chau, who was killed by the tribe during his visit in 2018, the Press Trust of India reported.

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