Malaysia detains 4 for posing naked on quake-hit peak

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Two Canadian siblings and a Dutch male surrendered at a police station in Sabah on Tuesday evening, he said. A British woman was detained at a Sabah airport earlier on Tuesday while trying to fly to Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry earlier identified the siblings to The Canadian Press news agency as Lindsey Petersen and Danielle Petersen.

Malaysian lights up candles at a candlelight vigil for the victims of the earthquake in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia on Monday, June 8, 2015.(Source: AP)

They were believed to be part of a group of 10 people who stripped naked before taking photos at Mount Kinabalu on May 30.

A magnitude-5.9 earthquake on Friday sent rocks and boulders raining down the trekking routes on the 4,095-meter-high (13,453-foot-high) mountain, killing 18 climbers.

The victims were nine Singaporeans, six Malaysians and a Filipino, a Chinese and a Japanese national.

The quake damaged roads and buildings in Sabah and broke one of the twin rock formations on the mountain known as the “Donkey’s Ears.”

Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan has blamed the tragedy on the foreigners for showing “disrespect to the sacred mountain” by posing naked at the peak. He has said a special ritual will be conducted to “appease the mountain spirit.”