THREE-YEAR-OLD Aylan Kurdi, whose body found washed up on a Turkish beach became the most tragic image yet to emerge from the refugee crisis, was buried in Kobane yesterday alongside his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother.

The three were among 12 people who drowned when the rubber dinghy they were attempting to use to cross from Turkey to Greece capsized.

They had fled Syria to escape from the genocidal Islamic State terror group, which has come to dominate the Western-backed revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, but were returned to their home yesterday for burial.

Relatives said their father Abdullah, who survived the tragedy, would remain in Kobane. “He only wanted to go to Europe for the sake of his children,” his uncle Suleiman said.

“Now that they’re dead, he wants to stay in Kobane next to them.”