Dramatic video footage has emerged showing Turkish fishermen rescuing a toddler in a lifejacket in the sea off the Aegean province Aydın after a migrant boat capsized last Wednesday.

Two migrants died and 16 others went missing in two separate accidents in the Aegean Sea, when boats heading to Greece from Turkey capsized. Some 15 migrants in the boat were rescued while 15 others were missing since last week.

The men were fishing when they noticed the 18-month-old baby floating in the water wearing a life jacket. They also then saw a group of refugees floating in their life jackets nearby.

The fishermen initially thought that the baby, pale and cold, was already dead, but they soon noticed the baby was making sounds. He was pulled out of the water by the fishermen, who struggled to save his life.

“He was all pale. We suspected hypothermia as he was cold and his hands and feet were all white. He was also frothing at the mouth. We covered the baby with a blanket, tried to rescue him. After our call, a tow boat from the harbor arrived to help us before taking the baby to Kuşadası,” said the captain of the boat, Recep Evran.

At the beginning of September, the dead body of a four-year-old Syrian Kurdish boy Aylan Kurdi was photographed on the shores of the Turkish resort Bodrum after a migrant boat capsized, becoming a tragic symbol of the Syrian refugee influx into the EU.