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 ...

American YouTuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was arrested for illegally visiting North Sentinel Island in India, home ...

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, 24, was detained after taking a boat to North Sentinel Island, part of India’s Andaman and ...

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 ...

SURROUNDED by turquoise waters and golden sands, the remote North Sentinel Island is incredibly enticing. But this five-mile-long haven in the Indian Ocean is the one place in the world no tourist ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a Ukrainian-American tourist, was arrested after he tried to enter the restricted North ...

A 24-year-old American man went to a far-flung island in hopes of filming an encounter with the Sentinelese, the Indian authorities said. It is illegal to make contact with the tribe. By Christine ...

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 ...