PHOTOS: Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has made a sand sculpture of the image of Aylan lying face down which horrified the world

Slumped in the sand just like the real body of the young boy it depicts, this sculpture is one of thousands of emotional responses which have poured out across the globe to the shocking images of dead Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi.

Indian artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created the sand sculpture of the three-year-old at Puri beach, 65 kilometers from Bhubaneswar in eastern India.
The words written below, 'Humanity washed ashore. SHAME SHAME SHAME...,' encapsulate the horror felt by all who have seen the pictures of Aylan face down in the sand of Turkey's Bodrum beach after he drowned alongside his mother Rehan, 35, and brother Galip, five.
The desperate family - who fled the ISIS-besieged Syrian city of Kobane - were on an overcrowded dinghy bound for the Greek island of Kos when it capsized. The boys' father Abdullah survived.
On social media, users have created moving and poignant artworks in response to the tragedy, with many portraying the tragic little boy as an angel.

One of the Artists wrote: This image depicts Aylan rising into heaven along with the caption: 'I hope humanity finds a cure for visas' , In one moving image, the photograph of the little boy is edited to show a tiny angel with wings leaving his body and being carried into heaven by a woman, presumably his late mother.