Egyptian police have arrested four students who stripped to their underwear and publicly danced the 'Harlem Shake' - a convulsive dance style made popular by an online video which has gone viral.
The four pharmaceutical students shocked residents in Cairo when they removed most of their clothes and filmed themselves performing the thrusting moves, a police official said.
Neighbours started to assault the students who are accused of committing a 'scandalous act'. Egypt has strict public indecency laws.
Meanwhile, a new video by a different group of Egyptians has been posted online showing people doing the Harlem Shake in front of the pyramids.
One of them, dressed in white underwear and a bow tie, dances while riding a camel.The dance craze was sparked by a group of Australian teenagers who uploaded the 31-second clip called The Harlem Shake v1 (TSCS original) onto YouTube earlier this month.
It has since been viewed more than 16million times and has taken the internet by storm similar to the dance craze Gangnam Style.Earlier this month a University of Alabama student was facing possible expulsion for his attempt to create the largest Harlem Shake video ever.
Freshman Nojan Radfar gathered hundreds of students on a central part of campus called the quad to stage a version of the latest internet meme, which features videos of people dancing in costume to the tune of 'Harlem Shake' by American DJ and pr.