Four tourists fined, to be deported over nude shots on Mt Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu

FOUR tourists were ordered to be deported from Malaysia on Friday after pleading guilty to obscenity charges for taking nude photos on a popular climbing peak, an act some in the country blamed for causing a deadly earthquake.

The defendants - Eleanor Hawkins of Britain, 24, Dutchman Dylan Snel, 23, and Canadian brother and sister Lindsey, 23, and Danielle Petersen, 22 - were arrested earlier this week in the wake of the deadly June 5 quake that killed 18 people on Mount Kinabalu.