These heartbreaking images show the terrifying moment an overcrowded dinghy packed with refugees deflated and left them swimming desperately to shore.

One picture shows a breathless fully clothed father carrying his two-month-old baby boy through the water in a rubber ring as their crammed dinghy collapsed 100m from the Greek holiday island of Lesbos.

It comes on the same day 34 refugees drowned off Farmakonisi, believed to be the largest recorded death toll from any single accident in Greek waters since the migrant crisis began.

The latest deaths in the Aegean Sea came as Athens angrily defended its handling of the mounting migrant crisis in Europe.

Four babies, six boys and five girls died when the boat sank off Farmakonisi, 12 miles from the Turkish mainland.

Another 68 people were plucked alive from the sea while a further 29 managed to swim to safety on a beach on the island, the coastguard said.

The coastguard was also still searching for four children missing when another boat capsized yesterday off Samos, a Greek island close to the Turkish coast.

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Fight for survival

pity

This is pathetic most especially where that ball headed guy carried that dead baby inside that water, I hate to see the other pictures.

Terrific!!