North Sentinel Island, where tribespeople killed an American missionary last month and where, 37 years earlier, 21 Hong Kong Chinese crewmen of a freighter that ran aground off the island spent a week in fear for their lives until an Indian helicopter rescued them. Photo: AP
Shipwrecked Hong Kong sailors’ brush with Indian island tribe that killed US missionary John Allen Chau
- Crew were being threatened by ‘wild … people carrying spears and arrows’, captain cabled after freighter ran aground off North Sentinel Island
- 31 sailors, most from Hong Kong, were trapped aboard MV Primrose facing attack by hostile islanders who 37 years later slew US missionary
North Sentinel Island, where tribespeople killed an American missionary last month and where, 37 years earlier, 21 Hong Kong Chinese crewmen of a freighter that ran aground off the island spent a week in fear for their lives until an Indian helicopter rescued them. Photo: AP
