Brits heading for Majorca, Ibiza, Menorca and Formentera this summer have been warned the beaches are being turned into a gruesome graveyard.

In the last six weeks alone, six decomposing bodies have been found on the sand, shocking tourists and locals alike. Most have been in a skeleton or unrecognisable state, adding even more distress to onlookers, and last week, a severed leg was unearthed from the sand.

Brits have been warned that the situation is going to get even worse this summer because there will be more life-threatening crossings and more corpses will wash up. The bodies all belong to migrants who have tried to get into Spain by making perilous boat journeys across the sea. They are so desperate that they pack into tiny “pateras”, often without life jackets, and end up losing their lives.

On some days, hundreds of migrants have arrived in boats, even though the winter conditions have been atrocious, with cold weather, huge waves and biting gale-force winds.

Officials are on the alert as they say there will be increased attempts to get to the Balearics this summer due to the better weather conditions and therefore more bodies will be appearing.

They are labelling the Balearics as a graveyard.

Locals are incensed by the shocking situation and say tourism chiefs should be sending this warning message to Brits and Germans when they attend international travel fairs and pictures of the police carrying bodies off the sand rather than idyllic scenes of the islands.

“The Balearic Islands are a cemetery,” says Spanish newspaper Diario de Mallorca.

The latest body was found on Monday on the beach of Cala Mesquida in the municipality of Capdepera, and was the sixth to reach the islands in March alone.

It is believed to have come from a boat carrying 27 Somalis that disappeared after leaving Algeria on February 2nd. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition but appeared to be a male. He was wearing a life jacket.

The same morning, another decomposed body was found on Playa de Palma.

In the last two weeks, four other bodies were found in the sea of Can Pastilla (Palma), Cala Deia, Llevant beach in Formentera and Son Moli in Cala Rajada. In addition, a human leg was found on Saturday in the sea at Can Pastilla.

Island newspaper Ultimahora.es has also warned of more death crossings, saying: “Right now, there are no people on the beaches but later, with water sports like snorkelling, new discoveries will be made. The number of bodies found on beaches will increase.”

Reacting to the warnings, one local resident posted: “Please show these photos at international tourism fairs and in major German and English newspapers. This year, not even the beaches are safe.”