NEW DELHI — John Allen Chau seemed to know that what he was about to do was extremely dangerous.
Mr.
Chau, an American thought to be in his 20s, was floating in a kayak off
a remote island in the Andaman Sea. He was about to set foot on one of
the most sealed-off parts of India, an island inhabited by a small,
enigmatic and highly isolated tribe whose members have killed outsiders
for simply stepping on their shore.
Fishermen
warned him not to go. Few outsiders had ever been there. And Indian
government regulations clearly prohibited any interaction with people on
the island, called North Sentinel.
But
Mr. Chau pushed ahead, setting off in his kayak, which he had packed
with a Bible. After that, it is a bit of a mystery what happened.
But the police say one thing is clear: Mr. Chau did not survive.
On
Wednesday, the Indian authorities said that Mr. Chau had been shot with
bows and arrows by tribesmen when he got on shore and that his body was
still on the island. Fishermen who helped take Mr. Chau to North
Sentinel told the police that they had seen tribesmen dragging his body
on the beach...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/asia/american-killed-andaman-island-tribe.html
Related: North Sentinel Island is one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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