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Boy Who Survived Being Shot Eight Times

Waleed Khan was shot six times in the face and head, once in the leg and once in the hand during an attack which left over 100 pupils dead, including all of his friends.

Waleed Khan and his fellow pupils were getting first aid training when their school was attacked by militants from the hardline Islamic Taliban movement in December 2014. More than 100 children died in what would be the deadliest attack by the Taliban in Pakistan's history. Waleed tells Outlook's Saskia Edwards how he miraculously survived but was so badly injured that staff in the hospital initially thought he had died. Waleed's father describes the extraordinary moment he finally found him alive at the hospital and Waleed's cricket coach in Birmingham in the UK describes the moment Waleed came to his cricket academy.

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Image: Waleed Khan
Credit: Saskia Edwards

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