Touching images: Europe tries to plug refugee influx as migrants struggle to survive

A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a lifetube swims towards the shore after their dinghy deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, September 13, 2015. Of the record total of 432,761 refugees and migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, an estimated 309,000 people had arrived by sea in Greece, the International Organization for Migration (IMO) said on Friday. (Source: Reuters)

A refugee raises a child into the air as Syrian and Afghan refugees are seen on a dinghy that deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos. About half of those crossing the Mediterranean are Syrians fleeing civil war, according to the United Nations refugee agency. (Source: Reuters)

A refugee reacts from exhaustion while swimming towards the shore after a dinghy carrying refugees deflated before reaching the Greece. (Source: Reuters)

A Syrian girl cries as she arrives with others refugees from Turkey to Lesbos island, Greece. While migrants for years have taken death-defying trips across the Mediterranean to reach the relative peace and comfort of the European Union, the flow has hit record proportions this year, notably with an influx of Syrians, Afghans and Eritreans fleeing trouble back home.(Source: AP)

A Syrian refugee girl (C) cries moments after arriving in a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos. Many are fleeing the war-torn country in dinghies that have also threaten their lives in the sea. (Source: Reuters)

Young children eat milk powder as they wait for a bus in a temporary holding center for migrants near the border between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary. At least four countries Friday firmly rejected a European Union plan to impose refugee quotas to ease a worsening migrant crisis that Germany's foreign minister said was "probably the biggest challenge" in the history of the 28-nation bloc. (Source: AP)

A young boy wears a paper crown as he waits for a bus in a temporary holding center for migrants near the border line between Serbia and Hungary in Roszke, southern Hungary. (Source: AP)

A mother and her children arrive at a migrant camp for asylum seekers on the railway track near Roszke, southern Hungary in Roszke. Leaders of the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday that Hungary faces a bigger wave of 42,000 asylum seekers in the next 10 days and will need international help to provide shelter on its border. (Source: AP)

A migrant carries his child after crossing into the country from Serbia at the border near Roszke, Hungary. (Source: Reuters)

Migrants walk along rail tracks on sunset close to a migrant collection point in Roszke, Hungary. Hungary had initially stopped the migrants from entering other European Nations but later gave in too their determination. (Source: Reuters)

A Syrian woman embraces her child after they arrived with others migrants on a dinghy from Turkey to Greece. Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing the war in their homeland have descended on Turkey’s Aegean coast this summer to board boats to Greece, their gateway to the European Union. (Source: AP)

A Syrian woman embraces her children after they arrived from Turkey. Aid agencies estimate that, over the past month, about 2,000 people a day have been making the short crossing to Greece’s eastern islands on rubber dinghies. (Source: AP)

People hold up placards during a demonstration as part of a pan-european movement to welcome refugees and call on European governments to show solidarity with refugees and migrants, in Athens, Greece. (Source: Reuters)

Migrants seen with Hungarian police officers at a migrant collection point near the Serbian Hungarian border in Roszke, Hungary. Police said 4,330 were detected crossing in the previous 24 hours, more than 700 higher than the previous one-day record, as trekkers strove to reach Hungary before the tougher security measures take effect. (Source: Reuters)

Migrants are escorted by Hungarian police officers as they wait to board a bus at a migrant collection point near the Serbian Hungarian border in Roszke, Hungary. (Source: Reuters)

An elderly migrant waits to cross the border from the northern Greek village of Idomeni to southern Macedonia. The European Union will assess the economic costs of the refugee crisis to see whether the nations caught up in it need more lenient budget rules. Greece, Italy and Hungary are among the EU nations hardest hit by the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants this year. (Source: AP)

A baby lays on the ground as his mother waits for the registration and the issuing of travel documents of her family at a soccer stadium in Mytilene, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. More than 15,000 refugees and migrants are stranded on the Aegean island, awaiting screening before they can board a ferry to the Greek mainland from where they head north through Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary to seek asylum in more prosperous European countries. (Source: AP)