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Drowned Syrian boys buried in hometown they fled

KUCUK KENDIRLI, Turkey (AP) — The Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece buried his wife and two sons on Friday in their hometown of Kobani, returning them to the conflict-torn Syrian Kurdish region they had fled.

With the burial, Abdullah Kurdi abandoned any plans of leaving his homeland again.

"He only wanted to go to Europe for the sake of his children," said Suleiman Kurdi, an uncle of the grieving father. "Now that they're dead, he wants to stay here in Kobani next to them."

The haunting image of the 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach focused the world's attention on the wave of migration fueled by war and deprivation.
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