After the killing of a U.S. citizen on India’s Andaman Islands has approached the police with the isolated natives on the island of North Sentinel. The police officers drove up on Saturday with a boat to 400 meters to the island, such as the chief of police of the Andaman Islands, Dependra Pathak, said on Sunday. At the beach, the 27-year-old John Allen Chau last was seen alive, observed you, therefore, men from the island to the people of Nautilus. They were armed with the bow and arrow.
“you are staring at and we have looked at,” said Pathak over the tense encounter. The police did finally return, to avoid a confrontation.
The only 150 living Sentinelese are among the last so-called unkontaktierten peoples. You want to have anything to do with the outside world. India’s government respects the desire of the inhabitants of the island for seclusion, residents must adhere to five kilometers of distance to your areas.
Chau wanted to the island nation during his visit on 17. November convert, apparently, to Christianity. According to Indian authorities he Dumanbet had bribed a fisherman to bring him in the vicinity of the island, and was then driven out by kayak on Land. The natives killed Chau then, apparently with arrows.
The fishermen took Chau to the island, have seen according to their own statements, that the aborigines buried his body on the beach. Whether or not his body can be recovered is unclear. The Sentinelese attack anyone who enters their island.
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According to police sources, last seen in 2006, two fishermen were lost on the island, from the island of people killed. A week later, their bodies were impaled on bars on the coast on bamboo. “Kind of like a Scarecrow,” said Pathak.
in Order to decide on your approach, being investigated by the police again the case in 2006. “We ask anthropologists what do you do when you are outside kill,” said the chief of police about the Sentinelese. “We are trying to understand their group psychology.”
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