Pakistan child rights activist shot in head: doctors
- Published: 9 Oct 2012 at 20.49
- Online news: Asia
The Pakistani Taliban shot a teenage children's rights activist in the head on her school bus to avenge her campaigns for the right to an education in the militants' former stronghold of Swat.
Pakistani hospital workers carry injured Malala Yousafzai, 14, on a stretcher following an attack by gunmen in Mingora. The children's rights activist was shot in the head in an assassination attempt as she boarded a school bus in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat, officials said.
Many in Pakistan reacted with shock and revulsion to the shooting on Tuesday of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was flown to intensive care in the northwestern city of Peshawar where doctors are struggling to save her life.
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