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Death toll in Malaysian earthquake reaches 13 as rescue crews look for tourists on mountain trapped by landslides.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3cLgr78FO
So, three Europeans and two Canadians have offended the mountain spirit in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. I think it is a tad silly... what do the 'Poly theists think?
Six people remained missing on 13,435-foot-high Mount Kinabalu in eastern Sabah state on Borneo, where a magnitude-5.9 earthquake sent rocks and boulders raining down and blocking trekking routes.
Five Americans were believed to be among more than 130 trapped on the mountain as authorities struggled to drop food and clothing from helicopters after the Friday quake.
'This is a very sad day for Kinabalu,' Sabah's tourism minister, Masidi Manjun, said of the deaths.
...The mountain will be closed for three weeks for maintenance work, and flags will be flown at half-staff in Sabah on Monday to mourn the victims, minister Masidi said.
Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed the tragedy on a group of 10 foreigners who 'showed disrespect to the sacred mountain' by posing naked at the peak last week.
He said a special ritual would be conducted later to 'appease the mountain spirit.'
The foreigners, who included two Canadians, two Dutch and a German national, broke away from their entourage and stripped naked before taking photos at the mountain peak on May 30, officials have said.
Five of the tourists are believed to still be in Malaysia and will be barred from leaving on the offense of gross indecency, according to police...
Five Americans were believed to be among more than 130 trapped on the mountain as authorities struggled to drop food and clothing from helicopters after the Friday quake.
'This is a very sad day for Kinabalu,' Sabah's tourism minister, Masidi Manjun, said of the deaths.
...The mountain will be closed for three weeks for maintenance work, and flags will be flown at half-staff in Sabah on Monday to mourn the victims, minister Masidi said.
Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan blamed the tragedy on a group of 10 foreigners who 'showed disrespect to the sacred mountain' by posing naked at the peak last week.
He said a special ritual would be conducted later to 'appease the mountain spirit.'
The foreigners, who included two Canadians, two Dutch and a German national, broke away from their entourage and stripped naked before taking photos at the mountain peak on May 30, officials have said.
Five of the tourists are believed to still be in Malaysia and will be barred from leaving on the offense of gross indecency, according to police...
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3cLgr78FO
So, three Europeans and two Canadians have offended the mountain spirit in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. I think it is a tad silly... what do the 'Poly theists think?
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