CAIRO – A Turkish aid group has arranged a “Sea Cemetery” as a powerful reminder of all the Syrian refugees who have died at sea, sharing pains of their families.

The project was created by “Support To Life” aid group to raise awareness about the scale of the crisis, a video posted by Huffington Post on Facebook revealed.

More than 4000 ‪Syrian refugees have died trying to cross the ‎Mediterranean.

Revealing the large scale of the dilemma, the aid group arranged 200 symbolic gravestones floating in the Mediterranean which bear the names of some of those who died crossing into Europe.

At the beginning of the fifth year of the conflict in Syria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has released a new report that the number of children affected by the civil war in Syria has more than doubled over the past year.

UNICEF said the child casualty rates were the highest recorded in any recent conflict in the region.

It cited UN figures that at least 10,000 children have been killed in the Syrian war but noted that the real number is probably higher.

The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said that more than 136,000 have been killed since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.

The UNICEF report said 2 million children needed some form of psychological support or treatment while a total of 5.5 million children were affected by the conflict – some of them inside Syria and others living abroad as refugees.

This is more than twice the number of children affected by the conflict in March 2013, when UNICEF estimated it had impacted 2.3 million young Syrians.

The number of children displaced inside Syria has risen to nearly 3 million from 920,000 a year ago. Meanwhile, UNICEF said the number of child refugees has grown to 1.2 million from 260,000 since last year – 425,000 of them under 5 years old.

More than a million refugees, mainly from Syria, have crossed via Turkey and Greece into Europe in the past 12 months.