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AFP ran a reverse image search on Yandex and found one of the two pictures featured in the Facebook posts on the websites of companies specialising in Halloween props for TV and film.AFP tried to track down a second photograph circulating on social media. Although the cadavre in the picture resembles the “burn body” on the Halloween prop sites, we were not able to confirm this.