From the woman who survived... and the child who died, they began together on the shores of poverty with the shared dream of a better life.
By the time they arrived, one had become an anguished survivor. The other, a tiny corpse, his woolly hat dripping of the Mediterranean waves that engulfed him.
Separately they were plucked from the water by beach dwellers on the Greek holiday island of Rhodes after the migrant ship they were travelling on ran aground. The child is one of three Turkish migrants killed in the tragedy.
His death is one of hundreds in the last 24 hours across European waters, with as many as 1,000 feared dead after what leaders have described as 'a dark day' for the continent.
Yesterday, more than 900 mainly African migrants are believed to have perished when a 75 foot fishing boat capsized off Libya in one of the worst maritime tragedies since the Second World War.
Survivors claimed up to 300 people including women and children 'drowned like rats in cages' after being locked in the hold by callous traffickers. A further 100 migrants were rescued from a third vessel and taken to Sicily late last night.
Less than 24 hours later another two boats off the coast of Libya made distress calls to Italian and Maltese coastguards. Hundreds of migrants are thought to be on board.
In the wake of the disasters, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat called for the European Union to resume rescue operations and address the chaos in Libya which allows smugglers - who charge migrants thousands of pounds for the passage to Europe - to operate with impunity.
