Social media influencers have been criticised for "insensitive" photos taken at Chernobyl.
The nuclear power plant, near the city of Pripyat in Ukraine, has seen a massive increase in tourism since the success of the Sky Atlantic/HBO miniseries, starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emil
But the site has also attracted some who seek an unusual backdrop for photos of themselves in the quest for likes and followers on social media.
Craig Mazin, who created the drama series, has now urged people to be sensitive.
Writing on Twitter, he said: "It's wonderful that #ChernobylHBO has inspired a wave of tourism to the Zone of Exclusion. But yes, I've seen the photos going around. If you visit, please remember that a terrible tragedy occurred there. Comport yourselves with respect for all who suffered and sacrificed."
One Instagram user posed wearing a helmet and white coat inside the control room of the nuclear plant where the safety test went wrong 33 years ago, sparking the tragedy, in a photo that has since been removed from the social media site.
Some have pictured themselves touching the animals in the radioactive area while others pose on the furniture that was left behind when the city was abandoned
Some have posed smiling in front of the Ferris wheel that was never used and one even posed half naked on the streets of the ghost town.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said that radioactive isotopes at the site "still linger [but] are at tolerable exposure levels for limited periods of time".
But it is not just the safety aspect that concerned other social media users - many deemed the photos insensitive.
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