They were injured in Yemen (Picture: Mohammed Awadh/Save the Children)

A baby girl was so severely injured after an airstrike that she had to be tied to a bed to prevent her touching her wounds.

Eman, aged one, was burned across her face with shrapnel after a bomb fell on the funeral she was attending with her mum and a group of women.

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Baby Zuhoor was also injured, her broken arm and bruised eyes contrasting with her cartoon yellow top.

The heartbreaking photographs were shared by Save the Children to show the devastation of Yemen’s civil war, which has often gone unreported.


‘Our teams have just visited a hospital where they saw two infants who had been seriously injured, including a one-year-old girl with shrapnel wounds to her stomach and burns right across her face,’ a spokesman said.

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‘The little girl’s aunt told us her mother had been killed in the attack and there are still two children missing in the rubble.



‘Attacks like this have been carried out by all sides with impunity for nearly two years, and all too often it is children and their families that are paying the price,’ the spokesman said.

‘The bombs are landing on homes, they are landing on schools, and they are landing on hospitals. These are crimes, pure and simple.’

"These are crimes, pure and simple" Save the Children statement on reports of an airstrike on a funeral in #Yemen https://t.co/BZll9AISi7 pic.twitter.com/r9m51O4uWQ — Save the Children UK (@savechildrenuk) February 16, 2017

Six women, including Eman’s mum, are said to have died in the attack, along with one child.

Since the war began in, an estimated 1,500 children have been killed and thousands maimed.

Missing girl, 13, not seen since Friday when she left to go shoppingThe latest attack, allegedly by the Saudi-led coalition, took place north of the capital Sana’a, where mourners had gathered on Wednesday.

‘There have been ongoing military confrontations for days between the Yemeni armed forces and Houthi militias’ outside Sanaa, the coalition said in a statement, referring to the Shiite Houthi rebels who control the capital.

‘We will verify these claims and provide media outlets with any information we obtain.’

The house, where mourners had gathered, was destroyed in an airstrike (Picture: EPA)

Jamie McGoldrick, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, said he was ‘saddened and appalled’ by the attack on the funeral gathering.

‘It is not the first time that a funeral gathering is struck by airstrikes, nor is it the first time that women and children are killed in civilian premises such as hospitals, schools and private homes,’ he said in a statement.

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‘The manner in which the parties to the conflict are waging this war is taking an unacceptable toll on the civilian population in Yemen.’

The war in Yemen has killed more than 10,000 civilians and displaced over three million people. It pits the Houthis and allied army units against the US-backed coalition, which is fighting to restore an internationally recognised government.

Britain has faced criticism as it sells weapons to Saudi Arabia which may be used in attacks harming civilians.