A road safety campaign that uses images of a young Muslim girl wearing a hijab has dropped the pictures after they were accused of sexualising the child.

The religious headscarf is traditionally worn by Muslim women from the age of puberty to signal female modesty in front of men.

However, illustrations used in educational books and on the internet as part of the Children's Traffic Club London show a child aged four wearing a hijab.

Transport for London confirmed the campaign, which it had promoted and that has recruited around 60,000 children across the capital, would stop using the images.

Drawings of the young Muslim girl, called Razmi, in the stories show her wearing the hijab - which in Arabic means "partition" or "barrier" - in a variety of settings.