A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who has championed the education of girls was shot Tuesday by a Taliban gunman while she was riding home from school in a bus.
The teenager — Malala Yousafzai — was shot as the bus was about to leave the school grounds in the town of Mingora in Pakistan’s volatile Swat valley, the Associated Press reports.
Malala has stirred the anger of the Taliban by publicizing their atrocities, particularly on women and girls.
The town’s police chief says the gunman approached the bus and asked which one of the girls was Malala. Another girl pointed to Malala, but the activist denied it was she and the gunman then shot both girls, the AP reports.
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