Malala Yousufzai ‘getting better day by day’

By RICHARD VERNALLS

Published 5th Feb 2013, 00:24 BST

THE Pakistani schoolgirl who survived assassination by the Taleban has said she is “getting better day by day”.

Malala Yousufzai, 15, underwent successful surgery on her skull and ear at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham at the weekend.

She escaped death by a matter of inches when she was shot on 9 October last year – as the bullet entered just above her left eye and ran along her jaw, “grazing” her brain.