Recovery of body could take days

PORT BLAIR, India - Authorities said on Thursday that it may take "some days" to recover the body of a US citizen killed in a hail of arrows shot by a tribe untouched by modern civilization.

John Allen Chau, 27, was attacked as he set foot last week on the remote North Sentinel Island, one of the Indian Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal that is off limits to visitors, police said.

Dependra Pathak, the head of the region's police, said that authorities sent a helicopter to the area and then a ship to identify where the incident took place.