Plus, he noted, it may already be too late to learn much from the body, since the heat and humidity on North Sentinel will cause rapid decomposition. “Ultimately, it’s becoming futile,” he said.

North Sentinel is in the Andaman Islands, a group of islands at the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea. Indian media reports said the American was on an adventure trip to the islands ...

North Sentinel Island killing: Letter home from missionary who was killed by remote tribe Updated: Nov. 21, 2018, 4:26 p.m. | Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 1:26 p.m.

North Sentinel is an outpost of the island chain, which is far closer to Myanmar and Thailand than to mainland India. Estimates on the group’s size range from a few dozen to a few hundred.

Two weeks ago a young American made a doomed mission to North Sentinel Island, a speck in the Bay of Bengal and home to perhaps the most isolated people on earth — all 50 or so of them.

North Sentinel Island is not the only place not currently affected by modern civilization, but it is the one currently thrust into the spotlight. In truth, there are most likely hundreds of ...

Pacific Northwest North Sentinel Island difficult for Indian officials to retrieve body of missionary Published: Nov. 22, 2018, 9:22 a.m.

He was murdered upon arrival. North Sentinel is 500 miles east of India, and it’s speculated that somewhere in the range of 100 to 150 people live there. No one knows for sure.

North Sentinel Island, which has remained largely untouched by modern civilization due to its inaccessibility and the tribe's desire to remain isolated, has been a subject of intrigue and concern ...

John Allen Chau, 26, of Washington state, was believed to have been met with a hail of arrows as he tried going ashore on North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, on ...