Harrowing photos show tots in Yemen slowly starving to death as the war-torn country is ravaged by famine

THESE devastating pictures lay bare the appalling famine killing children in war-torn Yemen.

While the world watches the event unfolding in Aleppo with horror, seven million people endure hunger thanks to nearly two years of war between a Saudi-led Arab coalition and the Iran-allied Houthis.

Staggeringly, eight out of 10 children are stunted by malnutrition and every 10 minutes a child dies due to preventable diseases, UN agency figures show.

And more than half of Yemen's 28 million people are "food insecure".

Yemen's humanitarian catastrophe is set to worsen as the war has ruined the economy and is stopping food supplies getting through, driving the country to the brink of famine, the top UN aid official in the country told Reuters.