The pictures were tweeted by journalist Sakir Khader, who wrote: "He survived the violence of the Syrian war, but died on his way to a new peaceful life in Europe." These heartbreaking pictures of the tiny body of a migrant boy who died alongside his brother and mother on the perilous journey across the Mediterranean today shocked the world. this picture summed it up about failure of European union.
His younger brother Aylan, three, and mother were also among 12 who died. And as David Cameron defiantly rejects calls to allow more refugees into Britain, this is the picture that should shame the PM and other European leaders who turn their backs on the plights of people so desperate to flee Syria they would rather die trying.
What is the European union? when there is no unity on humanitarian ground. Innocent people are dying every minute. What are you waiting for to help this human beings like you. Pictures like this will affect anybody who has a bit of human feeling especially those with children.
Pictures of Aylan’s limp body in the sand and of it being carried by a local gendarme has come to epitomise the crisis engulfing Europe as a tide of humanity flees the horrors in the Middle East.
The dead are among the 2,500 people who have already lost their lives this year while fleeing violence, oppression and poverty and trying to reach Europe by sea. Elsewhere in Europe, thousands of desperate migrants staged angry protests outside Budapest’s main international railway station after Hungarian authorities refused to let them board trains bound for western Europe.
Around 3,000 migrants are currently waiting at Keleti station in the capital, many camping outside the main entrance guarded by police, who said citizen patrols were assisting them in keeping order.
Outside, young Syrian children were wrapped in blankets and held in the air as if they were dead to remind Hungarian authorities of the bloody war zone hundreds of those now stranded in Budapest had risked their lives to flee in recent weeks.
Hundreds of migrants stranded in Hungary are protesting outside a train station after police stopped them boarding trains to Germany for a second day.
About 3,000 people are outside Keleti station in Budapest, the Hungarian capital's main international railway station.
Many of them spent the night sleeping outside the entrance, guarded by police.
But a government spokesman said: "In the territory of the EU, illegal migrants can travel onwards only with valid documents and observing EU rules. A train ticket does not overwrite EU rules."
The ongoing rallies outside the terminal came as Italy, France and Germany signed a joint document calling for current EU rules on granting asylum to be revised - allowing for a "fair" distribution of migrants and refugees between member states.
Berlin has been especially vocal in calling for a "strong response to the crisis", as Germany is expecting to receive 800,000 asylum seekers this year.
This could prove problematic for David Cameron, as Britain has only committed to take 500 Syrian refugees.
One German politician has suggested his government's stance on the migration crisis could affect renegotiations on Britain's relationship with the EU.
Luxembourg has pledged to unveil new policies which would make it easier to distribute refugees among the 28 nations in its bloc, and Jean-Claude Juncker is set to make a "state of the union" address to the European Parliament next week.
Although the EU is committed to the principle of homing refugees who are fleeing real danger, there is no mechanism to compel member states to accept them in equal numbers.
Meanwhile, the number of Syrian refugees who are travelling to the EU via Turkey, Greece and the Balkans shows no sign of abating.
On Wednesday, pictures showed the washed-up body of a Syrian boy on a Turkish beach in Bodrum after the inflatable boat he was travelling in capsized.
Greek authorities, which have been overwhelmed by the number of migrants and refugees arriving on its shores, has asked for greater support from EU partners in processing their claims for asylum. Italy and Hungary have done the same.
Hungarian police have said they intend to reinforce their positions outside the station in Budapest as the volume of migrants arriving from Serbia continues to grow.
Officers are working with colleagues in Austria, Germany and Slovakia to search for migrants travelling illegally on Hungarian trains.
On Tuesday, police forced hundreds of migrants outside the terminal as the government temporarily suspended all rail traffic there.
It marks a U-turn for Hungary, which over the weekend started to allow migrants to travel by train to western Europe without going through asylum procedures.
The closure of the station appeared prompted in part by pressure from other EU nations trying to cope with the influx of thousands of migrants flowing through Hungary.
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU.
More than 150,000 migrants have travelled this year to the country - the gateway to the EU for those crossing by land from nations including Syria and Afghanistan, across Macedonia and Serbia.
Army engineers have begun building a 4m-high fence along the border with non-EU member Serbia in an attempt to control the problem.
The country's foreign minister has said the government plans to register all refugees, but added economic migrants will be sent back to the state from which they entered Hungary.
The clampdown in Hungary appears to have had an immediate effect.
German police said only 50 migrants arrived on the morning trains into Munich, compared to 2,400 on Tuesday.
The border town of Rosenheim received no more than 70 migrants on Wednesday, compared to 300 the day before.
Where is the Unity in European Union? , Europe is killing their hopes all the the names of bureaucracy; people die everyday. we should not forget that they left their war torn country looking for safe homes. meanwhile,
David Cameron has been warned his hopes of overhauling the European Union will be blocked if Britain refuses to accept more refugees from north Africa.
Austria and Germany - key allies in the Prime Minister's push for change in Brussels - have condemned the UK for not opening the doors to asylum seekers.
They warned Mr Cameron that 'solidarity is not a one-way street' and warned his hopes of renegotiating EU membership will be scuppered if he behaves like Britain is 'out of the club'.
Mr Cameron has promised to renegotiate Britain's membership of the EU before holding an in-out vote by the end of 2017.
Ms Cooper said yesterday: 'If every city took 10 refugee families, if every London borough took 10 families, if every county council took 10 families, if Scotland, Wales and every English region played their part, then in a month we'd have nearly 10,000 more places for vulnerable refugees fleeing danger, seeking safety.'
She said the failure to offer sanctuary to refugees trying to escape the 'new totalitarianism' of Islamic State in the Middle East was 'immoral' and 'cowardly'.
And fellow Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham said the British government is treating the refugee crisis as if it is nothing more than a 'tedious inconvenience' for holidaymakers and urged the UK to 'share the burden of caring for genuine asylum seekers'.
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