Warning: this post contains distressing images.
Two Turkish fishermen were filmed scrambling to save an 18-month-old Syrian boy from the waters of the Mediterranean on Wednesday, after initially mistaking him for dead.
"He's alive! He's alive!" one of the men can be heard screaming, as they desperately plucked the boy to safety and began trying to clear water from his lungs.
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The fishermen, Recep Evran and Cenap Gumran, spotted the infant, Muhammed Hasan, and a group of other people nearby floating in the waters of the Aegean Sea off the town of Kusadasi, Turkey's Hurriyet Daily News reported.
The refugees had been on a migrant ship that sunk while trying to reach Greece.
At the start of the video, the men first rescue the others from the water, believing the baby was dead as he was pale and cold.
"We were very upset [because we thought] he wasn't alive," said Evran, according to the Associated Press.
"We thought he was dead. Then, when we were pulling Muhammed to the boat, we heard his voice ... And at that moment, we were ecstatic. I said 'He's alive, he's alive!" Evran said.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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