Aylan Kurdi's father brings family's bodies home for burial

The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece has taken the bodies of his wife and two sons back to the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, to bury them in their hometown of Kobani.

Aylan Kurdi's father brings family's bodies home for burial

The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece has taken the bodies of his wife and two sons back to the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, to bury them in their hometown of Kobani.

The haunting image of the man’s three-year-old son, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a Turkish beach focused the world’s attention on the wave of migration fuelled by war and deprivation.

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