India, April 3 -- A man was arrested in Andaman and Nicobar Islands for allegedly entering the prohibited tribal reserve area of the North Sentinel Island, home to the indigenous Sentinelese people, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.

The man, identified as Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Monday, March 31, and had allegedly entered the North Sentinel Island without any authorisation, news agency PTI quoted police as saying on Wednesday.

According to the police, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov is a 24-year-old US national who arrived in Port Blair on March 26 and ventured to North Sentinel Island from the Khurmadera beach of the archipelago, police said.

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