Photo of drowned toddler sparks fresh horror over Europe’s migrant crisis

Heart-rending pictures of a toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach sparked horror on Wednesday as the cost of Europe’s burgeoning refugee crisis hit home. The images of a tiny child lying face down in the surf at one of Turkey’s main tourist resorts has once more put a human face on the dangers faced by tens of thousands of desperate people who risk life and limb to seek a new life in Europe. The child is believed to be one of at least 12 Syrians trying to reach Greece who died when their boats sank.

“If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t change Europe’s attitude to refugees, what will?

Britain’s Independent newspaper

The hashtag ”#KiyiyaVuranInsanlik" (“Humanity washed ashore”) made it to Twitter’s top world trending topics after the image was widely shared, while newspapers across the continent published the image on their front pages As Europeans as Europe reeled once again at the human cost of the biggest movement of people since World War II.

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