North Sentinel Island

In a world where accessibility is almost a non-issue now, there exist certain places shrouded in mystery and off-limits to the general public.

The US is not pursuing action against the Sentinelese tribe members in India who killed an American missionary trying to enter their island last year, according to the top State Department official for religious freedom.

In the past 10 years, only one confrontational incident has occurred with the Sentinelese in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, where a total population of 50 of the community live, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday.

The American national killed by Sentinelese tribesmen in the Andamans last month was pursuing a "planned adventure", the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has said.

There was no lapse in coastal security in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that an American man, who was killed by an endangered tribe in the archipelago, could have exploited to reach the North Sentinel Island, the Navy said today. Allen Chau, 26, was killed by arrows fired by the Sentinelese hunter-gatherers last month.

Two weeks after American national John Allen Chau was killed by primitive tribes in the Andamans, startling facts are emerging about his visit there. Two American citizens had flown into Port Blair and met Mr Chau between November 6 and 10, egging him on, it is suspected, to go to the North Sentinel island.

Police believe two American missionaries encouraged John Allen Chau to go to a forbidden island in Andaman and Nicobar, where he was killed by an isolated tribe he was trying to convert, a top investigator said Saturday.

On Instagram, John Chau came off like a carefree young adventurer - climbing mountain peaks and exploring jungles. But in reality, the missionary harbored a deadly obsession with an isolated tribe in India he'd first read about as a teen.

Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration had no plans to have any confrontation with the Sentinelese tribe, who killed an American national recently, and was moving cautiously on its investigation, respecting the existing laws that protected the reclusive islanders from outsiders, a top police officer said on Tuesday.

Officials had a nervous long-distance face-off with the tribe who killed an American missionary, in their latest bid to locate his body on a remote island, the police said on Sunday.

The rituals in death over of the primitive Sentinelese tribe may hold the key to getting back the body of American John Allen Chau, killed by the aboriginals on North Sentinel Island near Andaman and Nicobar and buried on the beach.

"They were just 200 metres away and were attacking my helicopter with everything they had - arrows were flying everywhere. I was on the ground on North Sentinel Island. The rotors of my chopper were running. In moments, my crew and I would have been captured and killed."

One of the last things American evangelist John Allen Chau wrote in his journal before being killed at the North Sentinel Island by primitive tribes was, "God sheltered us from the eyes of the Navy and the Coast Guard."

The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.

In a world where accessibility is almost a non-issue now, there exist certain places shrouded in mystery and off-limits to the general public.

The US is not pursuing action against the Sentinelese tribe members in India who killed an American missionary trying to enter their island last year, according to the top State Department official for religious freedom.

In the past 10 years, only one confrontational incident has occurred with the Sentinelese in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, where a total population of 50 of the community live, Lok Sabha was informed Tuesday.

The American national killed by Sentinelese tribesmen in the Andamans last month was pursuing a "planned adventure", the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes has said.

There was no lapse in coastal security in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that an American man, who was killed by an endangered tribe in the archipelago, could have exploited to reach the North Sentinel Island, the Navy said today. Allen Chau, 26, was killed by arrows fired by the Sentinelese hunter-gatherers last month.

Two weeks after American national John Allen Chau was killed by primitive tribes in the Andamans, startling facts are emerging about his visit there. Two American citizens had flown into Port Blair and met Mr Chau between November 6 and 10, egging him on, it is suspected, to go to the North Sentinel island.

Police believe two American missionaries encouraged John Allen Chau to go to a forbidden island in Andaman and Nicobar, where he was killed by an isolated tribe he was trying to convert, a top investigator said Saturday.

On Instagram, John Chau came off like a carefree young adventurer - climbing mountain peaks and exploring jungles. But in reality, the missionary harbored a deadly obsession with an isolated tribe in India he'd first read about as a teen.

Many lessons could and have been drawn from the story of an American Christian missionary killed this month when he tried to contact a hostile hunter-gatherer tribe on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean.

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration had no plans to have any confrontation with the Sentinelese tribe, who killed an American national recently, and was moving cautiously on its investigation, respecting the existing laws that protected the reclusive islanders from outsiders, a top police officer said on Tuesday.

Officials had a nervous long-distance face-off with the tribe who killed an American missionary, in their latest bid to locate his body on a remote island, the police said on Sunday.

The rituals in death over of the primitive Sentinelese tribe may hold the key to getting back the body of American John Allen Chau, killed by the aboriginals on North Sentinel Island near Andaman and Nicobar and buried on the beach.

"They were just 200 metres away and were attacking my helicopter with everything they had - arrows were flying everywhere. I was on the ground on North Sentinel Island. The rotors of my chopper were running. In moments, my crew and I would have been captured and killed."

One of the last things American evangelist John Allen Chau wrote in his journal before being killed at the North Sentinel Island by primitive tribes was, "God sheltered us from the eyes of the Navy and the Coast Guard."

The night before John Chau returned for the last time to North Sentinel Island, he struggled with a sense of fear that his death might be imminent.