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Sheekha Bureau

Port Blair, Nov 20: An American tourist, identified as John Allen Chau, 27 years, has been reportedly killed by tribes of Sentinelese Community at North Sentinel Island.

Unconfirmed sources say that the American National had gone to North Sentinel Island with a local fisherman nearly five days back to interact with Sentinelese tribes, where he was reportedly killed by the hostile tribes of Sentinel Islands.

It has been learnt that since this afternoon several closed door meetings have been conducted by senior police officers to get complete details about this case and to register a proper FIR, in this regard.

Atlast, by late evening, a senior police officer confirmed that tonight a case of murder has been registered against unknown tribal members of Sentinelese Community.

“After getting relevant information a murder case has been registered,” the senior officer said.

Sources said that the victim visited Andaman and Nicobar Islands five times in past and had a strong desire to meet Sentinelese Tribes for preaching Christianity.

John Allen Chau reportedly hired fishing dinghy from Chidiyatapu area and with the help of some fishermen he reached closed to the Island on 16 November 2018, from where he travelled in his own canoe. Sources also said that a failed attempt was made on 14 November 2018 also.

Sources said that at North Sentinel Island he was killed by the hostile tribes and his body was spotted by some fishermen.

The Deputy Commissioner South Andaman and even the official spokesperson of A & N Administration were unavailable for a comment in this regard.

According to sources, John Allen Chau was staying in a moderate hotel at Dignabad area of Port Blair city.

Sentinelese is a hostile tribal community living in North Sentinel Island of South Andaman.