'Thank God I'm not dead': Malala's first thought after attack

“The man was wearing a peaked cap and had a handkerchief over his nose and mouth as if he had flu. He looked like a college student. He swung himself onto the tailboard at the back and leaned in right over us,” Malala writes.  

She then says that the man then demanded “Who is Malala?”.

“No one said anything, but several of the girls looked at me. I was the only girl with my face not covered. That's when he lifted up a black pistol, a Colt .45. Some of the girls screamed. My friends say he fired three shots. The first went through my left eye socket and out under my left shoulder,” she writes.