ALMOST a quarter of the civilians who died in Yemen in the last three years were children, a humanitarian aid charity reported today.

An analysis by Save the Children revealed that 2,341 minors died in the war-torn country between 2018 and 2020.

The six-year conflict between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the Western-backed government’s forces has already caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with 1.8 million children under five suffering from moderate acute malnutrition.