Alan Kurdi's dad begs Britain to help refugees on five-year anniversary of son's death

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It was a heartbreaking picture that shocked the world – a little Syrian boy lying dead, face down in a T-shirt and shorts on a distant shore after a boat taking his desperate refugee family to a new life capsized.

The heartbreaking image triggered furious calls worldwide for better treatment for refugees fleeing war-torn states – and pleas to European countries to open up their borders and let them in.

Now, five years on, the father of tragic two-year-old Alan Kurdi is begging the British Government to take another long hard look at the body of his little lad on that Turkish beach – and “open its heart”. “It feels like not much has changed since Alan died,” said Abdullah, as 416 migrants arrived on our shores on Wednesday, the most in a