On average two children have been drowning every day in the eastern Mediterranean the UN's refugee agency has "revealed":http://www.unhcr.org/56c6e7676.html.
It started its calculation from September last year, a period when the rough winter seas have made the crossing to Europe even more perilous.
It was in September last year that Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach and shocked much of the world.