«Breaking News» American tourist, 27, killed by protected tribesmen on remote island

An American tourist was killed by arrows shot by protected tribesmen living in one of the world's most isolated regions tucked in India's Andaman islands.

John Allen Chau, 27, had taken a boat ride with local fishermen before venturing alone in a canoe to the remote North Sentinel Island where the indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world.

As soon as he set foot on the island, Chau found himself facing a flurry of arrows, official sources said.

The North Sentinel Island, which is off-limits to visitors, is home to the Sentinelese, who killed Chau, officials said. 

Contact with several tribes on the islands, set deep in the Indian Ocean, is illegal in a bid to protect their indigenous way of life and shield them from diseases.

Contact with several tribes on the Andaman islands, set deep in the Indian Ocean, is illegal in a bid to protect their indigenous way of life and shield them from diseases. File photo

Police have registered a case of murder and seven accused persons have been arrested.

One police source said Chau, who had made previous visits to the islands, had a strong desire to meet the Sentinelese.

Chau was a missionary, according to International Christian Concern.

Chau had made several trips to the Andaman islands recently before finally managing to make it to the remote stretch by offering money to local fishermen.

Chau hired a fishing dinghy and, aided by the fishermen, reached the vicinity of the island on November 16, before transferring to a canoe, the official said.

Who are the Sentinelese tribe?

The Sentinelese tribe are an indigenous tribe living on North Sentinal Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. 

They shun all contact with the outside world and are known to be hostile to any encroachers.

The small forested island of North Sentinel, which is approximately the size of Manhattan, is out of bounds even to the Indian navy in a bid to protect its reclusive inhabitants who number only about 150. 

The Sentinelese attracted international attention in the wake of the 2004 Asian tsunami, when a member of the tribe was photographed on a beach, firing arrows at a helicopter that was checking on their welfare. 

In 2006, two Indian fishermen, who had moored their boat near North Sentinel to sleep after poaching in the waters around the island, were killed when their boat broke loose and drifted onto the shore.

Campaigns by non-profit and local organizations have led the Indian government to abandon plans to contact the Sentinelese. 

Survival International, an organization that campaigns for the rights of tribal people, works to ensure that no further attempts are made to contact the tribe.

They say it is vital that the tribe's wish to remain uncontacted is respected because if not, the entire tribe could be wiped out by diseases to which they have no immunity. Contact imposed upon other Andaman tribes has had a devastating impact.  

His body, spotted the following day by the fishermen on their return, has not yet been retrieved, the official added, although the fishermen who took him there have been arrested.

Police have launched an investigation, Deepak Yadav, a police official in the island chain in the Bay of Bengal, said in a statement late on Tuesday.

'He tried to reach the Sentinel island on November 14 but could not make it,' police sources said.

'Two days later he went well prepared. He left the dingy midway and took a canoe all by himself to the island.

'He was attacked by arrows but he continued walking. The fishermen saw the tribals tying a rope around his neck and dragging his body.

'They were scared and fled but returned next morning to find his body on the sea shore.'

'We are aware of reports concerning a US citizen in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,' a spokeswoman for the United States consulate in India's southern city of Chennai said in an email.

'When a U.S. citizen is missing, we work closely with local authorities as they carry out their search efforts,' she added, but declined to provide further details over privacy concerns.

The Andamans are also home to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe who activists say are at threat from outsiders, who often bribe local authorities to spend a day out with them.

But tribes such as the Sentinelese shun all contact with the outside world and are known to be hostile to any encroachers.

The North Sentinel island is out of bounds even to the Indian navy in a bid to protect its reclusive inhabitants who number only about 150.

 

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Main photo article An American tourist was killed by arrows shot by protected tribesmen living in one of the world’s most isolated regions tucked in India’s Andaman islands.
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