The following images are devastating. They show a young child’s lifeless body washed up on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey.
According to NBC News, two boats carrying what were believed to be Syrian refugees sank off the coast of Bodrum en route for Greece, according to Turkey’s Dogan news agency. It said at least 11 people died.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been desperate to flee their country due to the ongoing war.
Huffington Post UK reports that migrant deaths in the Mediterranean account for three-quarters world total of missing migrants this year.
From DailyMail: 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.
CNN reports the bodies of those who were discovered in the abandoned truck on a highway in Austria were most likely fleeing war ravaged Syria. Cause of death most likely suffocation, authorities said Friday. Sixty of the 71 victims were men. Eight women died, as did three children, ages 2, 3 and 8.
