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 ...

Outsiders are strictly forbidden from going to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025.

In 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau, 27, was killed by the Sentinelese, an endangered tribe, after illegally trying to enter their territory to preach Christianity. He was allegedly killed ...

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

North Sentinel Island, part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people, one of the last ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov set foot on North Sentinel Island, part of India's Andaman Islands, in a bid to meet the Sentinelese people. He left behind a can of Diet Coke and a coconut and ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, made the illegal voyage to North Sentinel Island, home to the enigmatic Sentinelese tribe, on March 29, Indian police told CNN. North Sentinel Island is a land ...

Indian authorities have arrested an American YouTuber for illegally trespassing on North Sentinel Island — one of the most isolated places on Earth. There are just a few hundred Indigenous ...

A 24-year-old American tourist, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, has been detained in India for allegedly entering North Sentinel Island, home to the isolated Sentinelese tribe. Polyakov left a can ...

Polyakov had arrived in Port Blair, the capital of the archipelago, on March 26. He left for North Sentinel Island, where entry of any person without authorisation is prohibited, from Kurma Dera ...