Drowned toddler the latest in migrant crisis horror

An image of a drowned toddler washed up on the beach in one of Turkey’s prime tourist resorts swept across social media after at least 12 Syrian refugees died trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.

The picture showed a little boy, named in reports as three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, wearing a bright red T-shirt and shorts lying face-down in the surf on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum.

In a second image, a grim-faced policeman carries the tiny body away.