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This is the moment two naked women apparently covered in jam sat on a bench in the middle of Manchester city centre .

Bewildered shoppers stopped to watch the spectacle as it unfolded on Market Street just before midday on Wednesday (October 10).

A crowd formed around the two women, who sat on a bench outside Barclays bank in the middle of the busy shopping street.

Video footage show the women covered head to toe in a red substance sitting side by side.

Other images show them covering themselves in white sheets as two police officers speak to them.

One onlooker told the M.E.N that the two women appeared to be covered in what looked like some kind of red jam.

He said: "They looked like they were rubbing strawberry jam on each other."

Confused onlookers took to Twitter to try and find out who and why they were there.

Issy Thwaite wrote: "Why on earth have I just seen two girls completely naked COVERED IN JAM sat on a bench in the middle of Manchester wiping bread off each other and eating it"

While @jacxhhhh commented: "Not every day u see two naked women rubbing jam over themselves in market street yeah."

A Greater Manchester Police spokesperson said officers are 'looking into' the incident.

They added: "Officers were called to Market Street following reports of two naked women sat on a bench covered in jam."