When she was only 15 years old, a Taliban gunman shot Malala and two other girls in a school bus as “a lesson” for standing up for women’s right to education, freedom and self-determination.

(CBS News) A year ago, Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while riding a school bus. Now, as the 16-year-old Pakistani activist releases her autobiography worldwide ...

MINGORA, Pakistan A Taliban gunman walked up to a bus taking children home ... it was her and the gunmen then shot both of the girls, the police chief said. Malala was shot twice — once in ...

Malala, who is now 16, was shot in the head on October 9, 2012, while riding a bus from school in her home town of Mingora. A fierce supporter of girls’ education, she chronicled Taliban abuses ...

Today she's the world-famous survivor of a Taliban assassination ... boarded a school bus full of girls in Pakistan's Swat Valley and asked "Who is Malala?" Then he shot her in the head.

Malala was 15 when gunmen jumped on her school bus and shouted her name ... Rashid said he was writing – not as a Taliban leader – to say he was shocked by the shooting, and to express ...

Oct. 5, 2013 — -- Before Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin ... On Oct. 9, 2012, Malala was on the bus on her way home from school when a ...

Taliban gunmen swarmed Malala’s school bus in October 2012 and shot her in the head, seeking to exact retribution for her widely publicized campaign to promote education for girls. The shooters ...

Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander ... Yousafzai's school bus as she was traveling home from an exam. The militant asked which of the girls was Malala, and shot her in ...

When she was 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head on her school bus because she had publicly criticized the Taliban practice of banning girls from attending school in Pakistan. That barbaric ...

Malala Yousafzai, the girl who was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen while riding the bus to school in Pakistan, will publish a book in the fall. “I Am Malala” will be published in English in ...