NEW DELHI (AP) — Police said they have mapped the area of a remote island off the coast of India where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary Allen Chau, from Washington State, after allegedly killing him with arrows this month.
Investigators studied the behavior of four or five North Sentinel islanders from a distance of about 500 meters from a boat for several hours.
Indian authorities have been struggling to figure out how to get Chau’s remains.
Officials took two of the seven people arrested for helping Chau get close to the island in an effort to determine his route and the circumstances of his death. The fishermen who had taken Chau to the shore saw the tribespeople dragging and burying his body on the morning of Nov. 17.
Officials typically don’t travel to the North Sentinel area, where people live as their ancestors did thousands of years ago.