Police were today hunting an OnlyFans couple who sparked outrage with outdoor sex against a sacred tree – which locals believe brought bad luck with a tropical storm.

Residents complained when they were shown the ‘disrespectful’ pair’s x-rated act among the rubber trees in Chiang Mai province last month.

Bizarrely, just days later several rubber trees were blown over and electricity was cut to more than 2,000 households in the district when typhoon Dianmu battered the area on October 1.

Officials are now trawling the couple’s online channels while trying to track them down.

San Sai district government secretary Bunyarit Nipavanich said: ‘We are working on finding the couple’s whereabouts. They will be prosecuted for performing such acts in the public.

‘It is not clear whether the couple has caused the hundreds of trees to fall or not but they have definitely disrespected the local beliefs and disgraced Chiang Mai’s traditions.’

Chiang Mai cultural affairs chief Wallop Namuangphrom said the video was ‘shameful and highly inauspicious’.

He said that a seance would be held at the spot to remove the bad luck.

The rubber trees featured in the video stood for more than a hundred years but did not survive the heavy storm that passed the region which also pushed down electric poles and damaged structures.

Chiang Mai provincial police chief Major General Thawatchai Pongwiwattanachai said officers were searching for the couple seen in the video.

Indecency laws in Thailand, still a relatively conservative Buddhist country despite its flashy red-light districts, state that ‘making, producing, possessing, importing, exporting, or distributing pornograph for commercial purposes, for distribution, or for public display’ can be punished by up to three years in prison along with a fine of up to 60,000 baht.

The computer crime act bans ‘bringing pornograph into a computer system’ and can be punished with up to five years in prison or a fine of up to 100,000 baht, or both.