Taliban gunmen in Pakistan yesterday (October 9, 2012) shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old schoolgirl -- widely admired for speaking out against religious extremists and in favor of women's rights -- according to the France 24 website.
Malala Yousufzai was flown by helicopter to a military hospital in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, medical officials confirmed. Yousufzai remains in serious condition, but doctors succeeded in removing a bullet that had lodged near her spine yesterday, France 24 was told today (October 10).
The young activist was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded in the attack.
Yousufzai became famous for speaking out against the Pakistani Taliban -- which is opposed to education for females -- after the Taliban bombed her school for girls in 2009, forcing it to close down.
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