Report: 2 MILLION children in Syria face malnutrition, trauma - CBS News

A Syrian girl cries following an explosion in the northern city of Aleppo, on February 20, 2013. The UN says at least 70,000 people have been killed in the near two-year conflict, and puts the number of Syrians who have fled their homeland at more than 850,000. / MAURICIO MORALES/AFP/Getty Images

In war-torn Syria, 2 million children are potentially vulnerable to trauma, disease and malnutrition, according to a new report by Save the Children.

In its study, titled "Children Under Fire," due out on Wednesday, the aid group said that children in Syria, which is now in its third year of the conflict -- are having difficulty trying to find something eat; that they are living in barns, caves and parks; and that young girls are being married at a young age to avoid potential sexual assault.

The report also notes that even children are themselves the objects of violence, with one in three kids having been reportedly "hit, kicked or shot at."........

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