Tragedy of the tiny boys who symbolise the desperation of thousands: Bodies of drowned brothers are washed up on Turkish beach after trying to reach Europe with parents
By Vanessa Altin and Jenny Stanton and Emine Sinmaz
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Bodies of two Kurdish brothers washed up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey
Their parents were fleeing the violence in Syria with their two young sons
Another mother was pictured grief-stricken after losing sons in the tragedy
2,500 people have lost their lives trying to reach Europe by sea this year
Labour leadership hopeful Yvette Cooper says 'Britain needs to act'
while Lib Dem leader Tim Farron declared: 'Enough is enough'
These heartbreaking pictures of the tiny body of a migrant boy who died alongside his brother and mother on the perilous journey across the Mediterranean today shocked the world.
Little Galip, five, and Aylan Kurdi, three, were on an overcrowded dinghy filled with refugees fleeing the war in Syria when it capsized shortly into the crossing to the Greek island of Kos.
Pictures of Aylan’s limp body in the sand and of it being carried by a local gendarme has come to epitomise the crisis engulfing Europe as a tide of humanity flees the horrors in the Middle East.
Another mother was pictured grief-stricken after losing two of her children, aged nine and 11.
Heartbreaking: The tiny boy is cradled in the arms of a Turkish gendarme on a beach in the holiday resort
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