A Bradford Muslim family was left scared after their two-year-old daughter was shot in the head by an airgun sniper who is still unknown.
“I am afraid it will happen to other children. If we don't catch whoever did this, they will do it again and again,” the mother, Noor Nahar, told on Thursday, May 14.
The 26-year-old Muslim mother was walking from the family's home in Cockroft Grove, Barkerend, to pick up her son from school when the incident happened.
Her daughter, Noorsadia Akhter, was left with a pellet embedded in her forehead after the attack.
“My 12-month-old son, Zunaed Abdullah, was in the pushchair and Noorsadia was sat on the top of it, facing me,” the mother said.
“I had not gone very far and was near some trees when I heard a loud bang, like a gun. It seemed to come from an abandoned building about 50 yards away and I turned to look.
“When I turned back to the children, Noorsadia was bleeding badly. There was blood all over her face and it was dripping on to her clothing. She was screaming and crying.”
Nahar went on saying: “I got some tissues and pressed them to her forehead to stop the bleeding. Then she stopped crying and went faint.
“I thought she was going to die. I could see there was something like a bullet in her head. I was panicking. I was screaming and crying and running with the pushchair, but no-one was there.”
After borrowing a phone from a passerby, Nahar called her husband and the girl was admitted to hospital where she underwent a surgery.
Six hours later, the girl was allowed to leave the hospital and go home.
Nahar believe that her daughter was saved by her thick hair that prevented the pellet from going deep into the skull.
source : abna
