(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121009-malala-645a.photoblog600.jpg)AFP Soldiers take Malala Yousafzai, 14, to an army hospital after a gunman attacked her and two other girls in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday. By Amna Nawaz and Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC NewsMalala Yousafzai, a 14-year old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for her work promoting peace, and two other young girls were shot and seriously injured Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.
Local police and hospital officials told NBC News that Malala was shot in the neck and head shortly after leaving her school in the Swat region. Doctors said they were working in an attempt to save the lives of all three girls.
Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) Malala was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize (http://childrenspeaceprize.org/)in 2011 for a blog she wrote under a pseudonym for the BBC. She also won the National Peace Prize in Pakistan, was honored with a school named after her, and quickly became an outspoken critic of the Taliban in Pakistan and public advocate for peace.
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big tragedy.too bad.so sad all we hear of now is killings everywhere