For months, a team of Taliban sharpshooters studied the
daily route that Malala took to school. About a mile outside the city of Mingora on Tuesday October 9th 2012, two
men flagged down and boarded the bus, one of them pulling out a gun. “Which one
of you is Malala Yousafzai?” he demanded. No one spoke—some out of loyalty,
others out of fear. “That’s the one,”
the gunman said, looking the 15-year-old girl in the face and pulling the
trigger twice, shooting her in the head and neck. He fired twice more, wounding
two other girls, and then both men fled the scene. Over the screams and tears of the girls, a teacher instructed the bus
driver to drive to a local hospital a few miles away. Everyone on the bus
stared in horror at Malala’s body, bleeding profusely and slumped unconscious
in her friend’s lap. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck.
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| http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19890029 |
Raja Pervez Ashraf, the prime minister, ordered a military helicopter to be sent to move her from Mingora, to an intensive care ward in Peshawar.
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