Authorities struggle to recover body of American missionary killed by indigenous tribe on remote Indian island
An American Christian Missionary who took it upon himself to spread the word of Christ to an indigenous tribe on a remote Indian island and was killed in the process has triggered a debate about the rightness of his mission.
Even as a major controversy brews over 26-year-old John Allen Chau's death, Indian authorities are struggling to recover his body from the restricted island where it is reportedly buried, Bloomberg reports.
According to police, North Sentinel Islanders in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands fatally shot John Allen Chau with arrows last week before burying his body on the beach.
Law enforcement officials are facing difficulties at the prospect of traveling to the island, where the indigenous Sentinelese tribe lives just as their ancestors did since thousands of years ago. The tribe views outsiders as an imminent threat and confront them violently.