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Alan Kurdi death: Turkey jails Syrians over migrant drowning
Source: BBC
A court in Turkey has sentenced two Syrians to four years in jail over the death of Alan Kurdi and four others.
Alan was the Syrian three-year-old whose photograph, lying dead on a Turkish beach, focused world attention on the refugee crisis in September.
Mufawaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad were convicted of people smuggling, but acquitted of causing death "through deliberate negligence".
Thousands of refugees and migrants arrive daily in Greece from Turkey.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35725373
4 March 2016 Europe
