A Norwegian shop has apologised after selling realistic severed plastic hands and feet as part of its Halloween collection.
The cut-price discount store said it was sorry for upsetting children and families by packing the fake body parts in butchers' polystyrene trays.
Parents complained after coming across the goods while rummaging through pumpkins, witches' costumes and broomsticks.
Bargain store Europris withdrew the range of fake, shrink-wrapped body parts after a local TV station covered the story.
Europris spokesman Knut Spaeren said: "We also didn't want to cause any upset, especially not to children, and we are withdrawing the range with immediate effect."
But the move failed to calm a storm of protest over Facebook and other social media platforms.
Facebook user Mona Urfjell wrote: "I think it's such a shame that we have an American tradition so violently forced down our throats."
And another, Gudveig Olsen, wrote: "It's absolutely terrible and it should not be allowed."
User Ivar Larsen added: "Do we not have enough violence in the country without these kind of crazy people bringing such things into the shops."
