Rabat, June 26 -- An extremely graphic photo of a 23-month-old girl and a father lying face down in the Rio Grande, a river that runs through the US and Mexico, is circulating.

The photo, which shows the girl still clinging onto her father, was taken by journalist Julia Le Duc and published by Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

The man, identified as Oscar Alberto Martinez, was attempting to enter the US on Sunday, June 23, by crossing the Rio Grande and turned around to get his wife when his 23-month-old daughter, named Valeria, saw him swimming away and jumped after him.

The bodies were identified as Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his young daughter Valeria died. Pictured here with wife and mother Tania.

Julia Le Duc told the Mexican...