Europe migrant crisis | Heartbroken father of drowned Syrian boy recalls agony

The distraught father of two Syrian boys who drowned with their mother and several other migrants as they tried to reach the Greek island of Kos identified their bodies on Thursday and prepared to take them back to their home town of Kobani. Abdullah Kurdi collapsed in tears after emerging from a morgue in the city of Mugla near Bodrum, where the body of his three-year-old son Aylan washed up on Wednesday. "I was holding my wife's hand. My children slipped away from my hands. We tried to hold on to the boat," he said in the statement. "Everyone was screaming in pitch darkness. I couldn't make my voice heard to my wife and kids."