The lifeless body of a six- to seven-year-old boy believed to be a
migrant trying to get to Europe has washed up on a southern Spanish
beach, authorities said Sunday.
In a grim reminder of the discovery of Aylan Kurdi, the
three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a Turkish beach in 2015, the
body was found Friday in the municipality of Barbate on Spain’s southern
tip.
A spokesman for the Madrid government based in Cadiz province, where
Barbate is located, told AFP the boy was believed to be six to seven
years old.
“The hypothesis is that he was a migrant,” he
said, adding that the bodies of other people believed to be migrants
travelling from north Africa had washed up on the coast further east
more than two weeks ago.
Authorities are investigating “to see if there is any kind of link,” he said.
