Police have arrested an American tourist for visiting an isolated island in the Indian Ocean and contacting tribal people there.

Mikhail Viktorovich Poliakoff, a 24-year-old American tourist, is accused of trying to make contact with the indigenous population of North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, making a film and leaving a soda can on its shore.

This island is a part of the Andaman Nicobar archipelago in the Indian Ocean and no one is allowed to come within a distance of five kilometers from it.

This island is inhabited by a tribal people called Sentinelese who have no contact with the rest of the world.

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