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A YouTuber was arrested for allegedly trying to contact an isolated tribe.
24-year-old Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov took an inflatable boat to North Sentinel Island located in the Bay of Bengal. There, he left an “offering” of Diet Coke and a coconut to the remote Sentinelese tribe, which has resisted outsiders in the past, The New York Times reports.
Police arrested Polyakov when he returned to India’s Port Blair, as it’s illegal to attempt to contact the tribe to “protect their Indigenous way of life,” according to a police statement.
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