Syria's 'Anne Frank' writes moving letter to Britain's PM

Bana al-Abed, the seven-year-old girl from Aleppo whose heart-rending tweets drew the world's attention to the horrors of war-torn Syria, has written a letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May pleading for her not to forget Syria's "dying children".

Her letter follows the scrapping of a UK government scheme to provide sanctuary and support to lone child refugees from Syria.

"I am looking for help for the suffering of the people of Syria. Can you send them medicine, doctors, water and milk?" she wrote. 

"Have you seen the young children, who are dying because of hunger? I have seen them. They live if we give them only food but no-one cares...I am very sad. Promise me you will send them food and medicine now please. Don’t forget them."

According to Bana, she was assisted in writing the letter by her mother Fatemeh,who also helped her set up her Twitter account which now has over 360,000 followers.

Last month the girl described as 'Syria's Anne Frank' also wrote letters to Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, telling the two allies to "stop the bombing and go to jail now for killing my friends".

Bana and her family fled Aleppo in December after regime forces took control of the city's rebel-held east following a brutal seige and bombing campaign.

Shortly after fleeing their home, the al-Abed family were hosted by Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.

In January, Bana wrote to US President Donald Trump and also met with US actress Lindsay Lohan.

According to the UK estimates that at least 15,000 children are among the more than 300,000 people who have been killed in Syria's six-year-old civil war. 

A UN humanitarian agency said on Sunday that 66,000 people have been displaced in northern Syria, where conflict rages on between rebel factions, Syria's government and extremist groups.