A photo of a toddler\u2019s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach after a migrant boat sank has sparked an international outcry on social media on Wednesday, in a poignant image of the refugee crisis.
\nThe boy was among at least 12 other Syrians died attempting to journey by sea on an overcrowded dinghy to the Greek island of Kos. Among the dead were five children and a woman.
\nAnother 15 people were rescued and the coastguard, backed by helicopters, was continuing its search for three more who were still missing, a statement said.
\nTurkish media identified the boy as 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose 5-year-old brother also died on the same boat. Media reports said he was from the north Syrian town of Kobane near the Turkish border, scene of heavy fighting between ISIS militants and Kurdish regional forces a few months ago.
\nThe images showed little Kurdi lying face down in the sand near Bodrum, one of Turkey\u2019s prime tourist resorts, before he was picked up by a police officer in photographs taken by the Dogan news agency.<\/p>\n
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\nThe hashtag \u201c#KiyiyaVuranInsanlik\u201d (\u201cHumanity washed ashore\u201d) made it to Twitter\u2019s top world trending topics after the image was widely shared.
\nThe image made the front page of almost all of Britain\u2019s major newspapers, including some that had previously taken a hard line on the migrant crisis.
\n\u201cTiny victim of a human catastrophe\u201d was the Daily Mail\u2019s headline, along with a photo covering almost all of its front page.
\n\u201cUnbearable\u201d said The Mirror.
\n\u201cIf these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don\u2019t change Europe\u2019s attitude to refugees, what will?\u201d asked The Independent in an editorial which was headlined: \u201cSomebody\u2019s child.\u201d
\nThe paper immediately launched a petition demanding Britain accept \u201cits fair share of refugees\u201d which gained 10,000 signatures in hours.
\nLondon has come in for criticism over the number of refugees it has accepted which is lower than other EU countries in proportion to its population.
\nOver the last week, there has been a dramatic spike in the numbers of migrants – mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Africa – seeking to leave Turkey by sea for Greece in the hope of finding new lives in the European Union.
\nThe United Nations refugee agency UNHCR says more than 2,500 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean so far this year.<\/p>\n