Cradled carefully in a stranger's arms, this tiny boy could be sleeping as he is carried up the beach.
But
the Syrian child, still dressed in shorts and T-shirt, will never wake
to run on the sands where his body was washed ashore on Wednesday
morning.
He
is perhaps the most pitiful of the victims of the deepening migrant
crisis and he no doubt died as his family fought for a better life for
him.
Pressure has
grown on Prime Minister David Cameron to increase Britain's involvement
in sharing the burden of the hundreds of thousands of people arriving
on European soil.
Yvette
Cooper, who is standing for the Labour leadership, suggested that it
should be possible to take some 10,000 people seeking asylum.
The
unnamed boy is just one of 2,500 people who have already died this year
while fleeing violence, oppression and poverty and trying to reach
Europe by sea.
The
child, who is probably only two or three years old, was found on a
beach in Bodrum on Wednesday and his lifeless body was recovered by a
Turkish gendarmerie.
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