No, the corpses of 51 foreigners were not found on the Philippines' Boracay holiday island

Multiple Facebook posts such as this, which claimed to have been shared or viewed tens of thousands of times, included an initial image (copied below) of rows of corpses in body bags as well as an aerial shot of the island and its white sand beaches. 

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Screenshot of false report

The text in white capital letters of this false report reads: "51 corpses of foreigners found in Boracay!".

However a reverse image search on the internet of this image shows it have been taken in 2013 in Tacloban, a city about 350 kilometres (220 miles) to the east of Boracay, in the aftermath of deadly Super Typhoon Haiyan.  Here is the original.

The links contained in the false Facebook posts about Boracay direct users to videos that do not provide any evidence that dozens of bodies were discovered on the island. No other sources are cited by the reports.

Local police spokesman Terrence Paul Santa Ana also told AFP in a phone interview on June 22 that there had been no discovery of multiple corpses of foreigners on Boracay.

 "There was no such reported incident,” Santa Ana said.

“It would be impossible for us not to know if 51 dead bodies were found or dug up on Boracay.”