Video Shows Fishermen Saving Syrian Baby Found Floating in Sea

Harrowing footage has emerged showing Turkish fishermen rescuing an a 18-month-old boy in a lifejacket, after the boat carrying him and other refugees capsised.

Quoting witnesses, the New York-based rights group said there had been eight incidents in which gunmen “intercepted and disabled the boats carrying asylum seekers and migrants from Turkey toward the Greek islands”.

The rescuers say they helped 15 people out of the water, including one woman who was pregnant.

The Syrian baby, who was wearing a life vest, was unconscious when he was pulled out of the Aegean Sea.

He initially thought the youngster, named as Muhammad Hasan, was dead.

“He was all pale. We suspected hypothermia as he was cold and his hands and feet were all white”, Mr Evran later told The Guardian.

Holding little Muhammad close, Lorin told the fishermen: “You both gave him a second life. we are grateful to you”.

Recep Evran, the fishing boat’s captain, told Hurriyet Daily News: ‘He was all pale.

The dead body of a four-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy Aylan Kurdi has hit the shores of the Turkish resort Bodrum, following a migrant boat tragedy and Kurdi has become a tragic symbol of the Syrian refugee influx to the EU.

The toddler, identified as Mohammad Hasan, is reportedly now in good health; he has been taken to İzmir State Hospital after a brief treatment in Kuşadası.

On October 9, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed an overloaded inflatable rubber boat adrift in the waters between Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos for more than an hour, until a group of Spanish lifeguard volunteers set off on their own boat to rescue them. “We think the others are deep at the bottom of the sea”.

The boy’s mother, Lorin Hanef, thanked the fishermen for saving her son.

More than 500,000 migrants are estimated to have arrived in Europe in 2015, fleeing countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea – many via unsafe sea crossings on unsuitable boats and vessels.

Another 53 people made it ashore after the dinghy sank shortly before dawn Sunday in choppy waters, according to an official at the Greek Shipping Ministry.

“I believe we have a big responsibility when refugees every day lose their lives in the Aegean Sea”, he said.