Yemen: Amal Hussain, Whose Image Drew Attention to Famine, Dies .

Amal Hussain, a seven-year-old girl whose image in the New York Times last week brought new attention to the thousands upon thousands of children suffering the dire consequences of Yemen's devastating war, has died, according to the newspaper.

The child died of malnutrition in a refugee camp in northern Yemen, her family told the Times on Thursday.

"My heart is broken," Mariam Ali, the girl's mother, was quoted as saying.

"Amal was always smiling. Now I'm worried for my other children."

The Times also quoted Mekkia Mahdi, a Yemeni doctor who had treated the girl shortly before her death, as saying: "We have many more cases like her."

The photograph by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyler Hicks, which showed the emaciated girl lying on a bed inside a mobile UNICEF clinic in Aslam, touched a nerve with people across the world and sparked outcry over a crisis that has been called by the United Nations the worst in the word.