Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi on final journey to city he fled from

  04 September 2015    Read: 1130
Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi on final journey to city he fled from
Aylan Kurdi `s last journey was supposed to take him to a safe home - hundreds of miles away from the relentless war in his native Syria.
Instead, it will end with a funeral for the 2-year-old in the city he tried to flee.

Aylan`s body arrived in the Turkish city of Istanbul on Friday. From there, it will make its final trip home to Kobani, the Syrian city his family left to escape the daily barrage of bombs.

His funeral is expected to take place this weekend.

Images of the small Syrian boy will live on long after he`s gone. The photos, which have galvanized the world and become the latest symbol of the migrant crisis in Europe, show his tiny body lying on a Turkish beach. He`s wearing a red shirt and black shoes, his face partly covered by sand and gentle waves, as if he was sleeping.

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