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Indian officers had a distant look at tribesmen who killed an American missionary during their latest attempt to locate his body on an isolated island, police said on Sunday.
The team of officials, who took a boat right in front of North Sentinel Indian Island on Saturday, sighted men from the Sentinel tribe on the beach where John Allen Chau was last seen, the chief of the police in the area, Dependra Pathak.
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"They looked at us and we watched them," Pathak said. The boat is removed to avoid any risk of confrontation.
It is believed that North Sentinel Island, where John Allen Chau was killed, is the last pre-Neolithic tribe in the world. Images: Instagram / John Chau and Getty Images
The police are working hard to avoid any disruption to the Sentinels as they search for Mr. Chau's body. Image: Reuters
The police make considerable efforts to avoid any disturbance of the Sentinelese, a pre-Neolithic tribe whose island is prohibited to foreigners while seeking the body of Mr. Chau.
The death of this 27-year-old man on 17 November sheds new light on efforts to protect one of the world's last "isolated" tribes, whose language and customs remain a mystery to foreigners.
The fishermen who took Mr. Chau to North Sentinel, one of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, said they saw the tribe burying the body on the beach.
The Sentinelese normally attack anyone who goes to the island, and Pathak said the police were watching for an incident following the deaths of two fishermen who went astray on the island in 2006.
There is now a tense tension in trying to recover Mr. Chau's body. Image: Instagram / John Allen Chau
One week after their death, the bodies of the two Indians were hung on bamboo piles facing the sea.
"It was a kind of scarecrow," Pathak said.
"We are studying the case of 2006. We ask anthropologists what they do when they kill a stranger," added the police chief.
"We try to understand the psychology of the group."
Although Mr. Chau's death is officially a murder, anthropologists believe that it may be impossible to recover the body of the American and that no charges will be brought against the protected tribe.
John Allen Chau was shot dead with a bow and arrow after being illegally transported to the island by fishermen . Picture: John Allen Chau / Instagram
Seven people, including six fishermen involved in transporting Mr. Chau to North Sentinel, were arrested.
The fishermen accompanied the police teams on the island to help in efforts to locate the place of Mr. Chau's death.
Anthropologists and tribal welfare experts who had had the previous rare contacts with the Sentinels were heavily involved in the investigation.
"Their advice will be important," said Pathak.
"We are following the advice of people on the ground to move this business forward."
