Picture of a refugee mum & her baby drowning goes viral

The boat they were travelling on collided with a ferry off the Turkish coast. Fortunately mother and child were rescued by coast guards.

The commercial vessel hit the migrant boat off the western port city of Canakkale today, Turkey's coastguard agency said in a statement on its website.

An official at the agency said eight people had been rescued following incident and search-and-rescue operations were ongoing.

Rescues and sinkings have become almost daily occurrences in the often choppy seas off Greece's eastern islands.

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Hundreds of thousands of mainly Syrian refugees have braved the short crossing from Turkey this year.

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