Tourist disrespecting Mount Kinabalu by getting naked.
A UK national is among a group of tourists prevented from leaving Malaysia after stripping naked on the country’s highest peak – an action blamed by locals for causing a deadly earthquake.
A brother and sister from Saskatchewanin Canada are also being detained.
Siblings Lindsey and Danielle Petersen are two of the ten tourists who are blamed for an earthquake that struck Mount Kinabalu.
The magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the eastern Sabah state on the Borneo island this Friday. At least 16 bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
Tourist disrespecting Mount Kinabalu by getting naked.
Image of Lindsey and Danielle Petersen
The group of tourists allegedly stripped naked before taking pictures on a mountain peak.
They are accused of disrespecting the mountain, which is considered a sacred place.
Liberal MP Ralph Goodale told local media the deputy minister of foreign affairs has had direct contact with the Petersens and they are working on the necessary steps to get them back to Canada.
He said: “The incident, obviously, was ill advised, especially in a foreign country.”
Tourists detained in Malaysia after stripping naked on sacred mountain and ‘causing earthquake’
