Police hunt tourists who stripped naked on beach…(Photos)

Chinese tourists who apparently stripped on a Malaysian beach were being sought by police, an officer said Thursday.

Police were tipped off Tuesday about a Facebook page showing pictures of several Chinese visitors in a variety of naked and semi-naked poses on Borneo in eastern Malaysia.

Interpol and immigration services had been contacted to help identify the Chinese tourists, said superintendent Peter Umbuas, head of police in the town of Semporna, about 1,880 kilometres east of Kuala Lumpur.

In one of the photographs, a woman in a swimsuit makes a face to the camera while four men behind her stand naked facing away.

Another features a man in shorts with three topless women also facing away behind him.

“It’s just a claim for now,” Semporna district officer Chacho Bulah cautioned. “Though the background of the photographs circulated looks like Semporna,” he was quoted as saying by the Malaysia Chronicle.

The incident appeared to have happened any time between 2013 and two weeks ago, Peter told dpa.

In June, a court in Sabah sentenced four Western tourists to three days’ imprisonment and a fine of 5,000 ringgit (41,500 baht) for indecent exposure, after they stripped naked on top of Borneo’s Mount Kinabalu.