Syria’s children ‘waiting to be killed’

Some 250,000 children are trapped in Syria without food, medicine or electricity, Save the Children reports in a major new study.

Youngsters told the charity they have become so terrified they “now wait for their turn to be killed”.

Fear and starvation have taken hold in the war- ravaged country, where civilians are killed by barrel bombs and those trapped in besieged communities have resorted to eating boiled leaves and animal feed to survive.