(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121019-malala-hosp-4a.photoblog600.jpg)Andrew Yates / AFP - Getty ImagesAn ambulance transfers Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen for campaigning for the right to an education, upon her arrival onboard a plance at Birmingham Airport in Birmingham, central England on Monday. By NBC News staff and wire servicesUpdated at 7:15 a.m. ET: Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, is able to stand with help and communicate, British doctors treating her severe wounds said on Friday, though she still shows signs of infection.
Yousufzai, 15, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for advocating education for girls, on Monday was flown from Pakistan to receive treatment at a unit at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital that has expertise in dealing with complex trauma cases. The unit has treated hundreds of soldiers wounded in Afghanistan.Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been airlifted out of Pakistan and flown to England for treatment of her head and neck injuries. NBC's Keir Simmons reports.The hospital also said that Yousufzai was 15 years old, not 14 as had been widely reported.
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