Photos have emerged of the bodies of babies and toddlers washed up on a beach in Libya, highlighting the human tragedy of the migration crisis on Europe’s borders.
According to one of the charities that posted the photos on Twitter, the children had been travelling with their parents on one of the many dinghies that set off from Libya in recent days.
“I’m still in shock for the horror of these images,” Oscar Camps, the founder of Proactiva Open Arms, wrote on Twitter. “These small children and women had dreams and life ambitions.”
Nancy Porsia, an Italian journalist and Libya expert, said the bodies were discovered on a beach in Zuwara on Saturday, when they were collected by the Libyan military and buried in the cemetery in nearby Abu Qamash.
The images have been compared to the photograph of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old who was found face down on a Turkish beach in 2015, which galvanised public attention to the refugee crisis.
Credit: theguardian.com
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