Drowned boys to be brought home

The father of two toddlers who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach Greece identified their bodies yesterday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani.

Abdullah Kurdi, 40, collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum, where the body of his three-year-old son Aylan washed up on Wednesday.

A photograph of the boy’s tiny body in a bright red T-shirt and shorts, face-down in the surf, appeared in newspapers around the world, prompting sympathy and outrage at the perceived inaction of developed nations in helping refugees.