A raunchy social media post showing a woman browsing for furniture half naked without wearing underpants has set Chinese social media alight. The original post, which first appeared on June 29, claimed the unidentified woman was shopping in an IKEA store in Beijing. The Swedish furniture giant has denied the allegation and reported the incident to police, according to Huanqiu.com.
The pictures were uploaded to Weibo, China's equivalent to Twitter, by a user named 'wu hou kuang shui_silent', who wrote: 'I finally understand why you Beijing residents like shopping in IKEA...' The user shared two pictures showing the back of the woman in close distance.

It was not clear whether or not the woman knew other people were taking picture of her.

The post has since been removed by the user who has more than 108,000 followers on Weibo.

The Beijing police authority demanded the pictured be deleted on June 30 after they became widely shared, according to Huanqiu.

The company said they had reported the incident to the police.