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Published On: Sat, Oct 20th, 2012

Malala Yousafzai wows doctors, comes out of coma and stands

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Malala Yousafzai stood up for the first time Friday, doctors in Birmingham, England, report.

The 15-year-old was taken on Monday to a British hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the head after a Taliban gunman attacked on her school bus.

Malala Yousafzai supplied by Pakistani officials

The hospital held a news conference and said the teenager is aware of her surroundings and making good progress.

CBS News correspondent Charlie D’Agata reported on “CBS This Morning,” has some memory as to what happened, and remembers she was in Pakistan on a school bus one moment, and then, in the next, woke up in a foreign country. One of the first things she asked when she came out of her medically-induced coma Tuesday, D’Agata reported, was what country she was in.

Doctors are focusing on an infection along the bullet track. They say the bullet entered just above her left eyebrow and exited below her lower jaw.

Malala is reportedly aware of all the global media attention she has received and wants to thank everybody for their support.

Speaking outside the hospital, its medical director, Dr Dave Rosser, told reporters: “It’s clear that Malala is not out of the woods yet.

“Having said that, she is doing very well. In fact she was standing with some help for the first time this morning when I went in to see her.”

Identified only as Attaullah, the gunman was believed to be one of two Talib assassins who gunned down Malala Yousafzai. The man was captured, held and  released by Pakistan in 2009.

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