Not a dead baby on the beach, this is how you should remember Aylan

As the world is shaken by the haunting image of the  lifeless Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, an ABC News reporter Muhammad Lila posted a happier picture of the toddler on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Saturday. 

Muhammad Lila, an international correspondent posted the picture saying that Aylan's aunt would want the world to remember him as a smiling child and not according to the pictures that are circulating. 

Just spoke with Aylan's aunt. Asking people to stop using drowning photo. Wants world to remember him smiling pic.twitter.com/COa1mAnzvG

— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) September 4, 2015

On Wednesday, the Turkish police had found several bodies of Syrian refugees on the beach, among them was three-year-old Aylan Kurdi who was found face down. While social media has been grieving the toddler's death, Muhammad Lila chose to show a different side of the boy by posting a happy picture of his. He also realised that the clothes Aylan was seen wearing when he drowned were similar to the ones in the picture that he had posted.

My God. Heartbroken. That photo I just tweeted out, of Aylan Kurdi? It looks like he drowned in the same clothes. pic.twitter.com/p6Es3lia3M

— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) September 5, 2015

Muhammad Lila has extensively covered Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti and regions across the Middle East.