Malaysian police on Wednesday said that they have detained four Westerners suspected of posing naked at the country’s highest peak last month, just days before an earthquake killed 18 climbers on the mountain. Police obtained a court order to detain them for four days while they’re investigated for indecent behavior, said Sabah state police chief Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman.
Two Canadian siblings and a Dutch male surrendered themselves at a police station in Sabah last evening, he said. A British woman was detained at a Sabah airport earlier 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. They were believed to be part of a group of 10 people who stripped naked before taking photos at Mount Kinabalu on May 30.