Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by Taliban gunmen last October, walked out of a hospital Friday to rejoin her family.

Wearing a white patterned headscarf and long gray dress, Malala walked slowly out of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, helped by a nurse, and waved shyly as she went through the door.

The 15-year-old schoolgirl who campaigned for education for girls in Pakistan and wrote a blog for the BBC Urdu service about daily life under the Taliban was attacked on her way to school on Oct. 9.

She was shot in the head and neck by men who blocked the school bus in which she was riding near her home in Mingora in Pakistan's Swat Valley and asked for her by name. She was rushed to a local hospital, then flown to the Birmingham hospital, which specializes in military casualties, a week later for specialist neurosurgery.

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