LONDON: The family of 15-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, have visited her in hospital after arriving in Britain, a spokeswoman said Friday.
The 15-year-old's mother, father and two brothers arrived in the city of Birmingham in central England on Thursday and went straight to see her at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
"Her mum, dad and her two brothers are here in the UK," a spokeswoman for the hospital told AFP.
"They visited last night."
After flying into Britain's second city, they were given a police escort through Birmingham to the hospital.
In an attack which outraged the world, Malala was shot on a school bus in Swat valley by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on October 9 as a punishment for campaigning for the right of girls to an education.
On October 15 she was flown from Pakistan to Birmingham in a medically-induced coma, and taken to the highly-specialised hospital where staff have extensive experience of treating British soldiers seriously wounded in Afghanistan.
The hospital said Malala was still comfortable and continued to respond well to treatment.
She has received thousands of goodwill messages from around the world since she was attacked.
The bullet, which grazed her brain and came within centimetres of killing her, travelled through her head and neck before lodging in her left shoulder.
It will take weeks to months for Malala to defeat an infection in the bullet track and recover her strength enough to face surgery.
Her skull will need reconstructing either by reinserting bone or using a titanium plate.
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Malala's work 100% Right .. education is better life ... I dont compare with any one to malala ...........
Get well soon malala . she want women education . she is great girl . we want women education , becouse women's grow a beautiful World.
@something true It doesn't become dark outside just because you close your eyes.
im getting really sick and tired of reading abt malala all the time. there are lots of other sisters who dont get any education in this country. now forget abt malala and move on. her family visit her at the hospital or not, believe me nobody cares in public anymore. write abt the other 2 girls who was injured instead. what happent to them?
Good to know that her parents and brothers met Malala in the hospital for the first time after the incident.
They should seek asylum in Great Britain, as it is not only Malala who faced the terrorism but the lives of all of her family members are as risk if they return back to the country.
Reallyyyyy ??
Awaiting peoples comments on how this is all staged so that they can get free ride to UK!!