‘Idiot’ US tourist leaves can of coke for remote tribe ‘that could have killed them all’

The North Sentinel tribe is vulnerable to modern diseases (Picture: Alamy stock photo)

An American man has been arrested for entering a restricted tribal reserve area on a remote Indian island – and leaving a can of coke and coconuts as an offering.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was detained after taking a boat to North Sentinel Island, part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar islands, home to five of the world’s last remaining isolated tribes.

He was spotted on a boat near...