Tourists who got naked on sacred mountain given 3-day jail sentence

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LONDON — A British woman and three other tourists issued guilty pleas in a Malaysian court Friday after stripping down and posing naked for a photo op at the top of sacred mountain Mount Kinabalu. They've been sentenced to three days in jail and fined.

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The four tourists were part of a group of 10 who angered the indigenous Kadazan Dusun people. They linked the act with a magnitude 5.9 earthquake, which struck near the mountain days later, killing 18 people.

British woman Eleanor Hawkins, Canadian siblings Lindsey and Danielle Peterson and Dutch man Dylan Snel admitted to the court on Friday that they had caused a public disturbance, however they denied some of the accusations levelled at them by the prosecution, according to BBC News Read more...

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