“He planned meticulously over several days to visit the island and make a contact with the Sentinel tribe,” Senior Police Officer Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal said. In a statement, police said ...

Police in India have arrested a 24-year-old US tourist for allegedly travelling to an off-limits Indian Ocean island and trying to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.

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Viktorovych was allegedly trying to contact members of the Sentinelese Tribe, which has rarely interacted with the modern world and is known to reject outsiders.

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