Idiotic US tourist who left Diet Coke for remote Andaman Islands tribe that killed last visitor is YouTube daredevil who also visited Taliban
The American tourist who was arrested visited a remote tribe that has no contact with the outside world and left a can of Diet Coke as an “offering” is a thrill-seeking YouTuber who previously visited the Taliban in Afghanistan.Influencer Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, who has been branded “idiotic,” traveled for nine hours in a small rubber dinghy with an outboard motor to reach North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean, where tried to get the native people’s attention by blowing a whistle and leaving soda and a coconut as tribute.North Sentinel Island is home to one of the world’s most isolated tribes, the Sentinelese people, who are all but untouched by outsiders.The last person to visit the island, an American Christian missionary, was killed after just a few days.Travel within three nautical miles of the island was prohibited by India’s government in 1956, and the territory is demarcated as a tribal reserve.Polyakov, whose father is of Ukrainian descent, set off for North Sentinel Island at 1 a.m.
on March 29, leaving a beach on South Sentinel Island some 19 miles from the regional capital, Port Blair, police said.Upon reaching the northeastern shore of the island, he used binoculars to watch the beach from the boat in hopes of spotting the tribe, he told police.But when no one appeared, he waded through the water to the beach where he left the can of Diet Coke and a coconut and waited on the shore for a few minutes in hopes of making contact with an islander.When no one emerged from the island’s dense forests, Polyakov shot a video on the beach and returned to his boat, waiting for an hour and blowing a whistle to try and lure tribe members out.After that effort also proved pointless, he set off back to South Sentinel Island, where he was spotted by local fishermen who reported him to the police, according to authorities.This is not the first reckless journey Polyakov has made, he told police.In the...