
Incredible recovery of little girl hit in Yemen airstrike
Daily MailSix months ago little Zuhoor lay on bloodstained hospital bed fighting for life after being dragged from the rubble of a house struck by warplanes in Yemen. Stricken: One-year-old Zuhoor is pictured laying on a bloodstained hospital bed, her right arm bandaged after she had four fingers amputated following an airstrike on a wake in Yemen Recovery: Now, six months on, although she is psychologically scarred from the attack that killed her grandmother, Zuhoor has made a remarkable recovery as she plays with her dolls But while they have returned to their villages and are beginning to play again with other children, the psychological problems remain to haunt them. Surgeons had to amputate four fingers from Zuhoor's dreadfully damaged right hand and doctors say she cannot understand why her hands are so different. Fight for life: In the hospital bed opposite Zuhoor was Eman, with her body pock marked with shrapnel and her hands tethered to the bed to stop her scratching her wounds Fighting back: But 16 weeks on from those shocking pictures of Eman's badly bruised body in a hospital bed with a tube in her neck, the one year old is slowly recovering He continued : 'Zuhoor's brothers and sisters have become scared of the sound of aircraft like everyone in the village. Surgeons had to amputate four fingers from Zuhoor's dreadfully damaged right hand and doctors say she cannot understand why her hands are so different Zuhoor's father Faisal said she suffers awful nightmares and is terrified by the sounds of planes overhead.
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