Waleed Khan, who was a survivor from the Army Public School (APS) attack has a journey that inspires many. Waleed received a total of 8 bullets that left him unconscious for around 8 days. After this he went through 12 surgeries but didn’t quit there.
Waleed has now been elected as the member of British Youth Parliament in UK.
On 16th December, 2014 he was badly injured during the terror attack. Six years have passed by but he still has the memory of the that black day vividly.
Six bullets came hitting him on his face and rupturing his jaws and damaging his face beyond recognition. He was unable to properly close his mouth due to severe jaw injury. For hours, the 9th class student was laying unconscious in one corner of the hospital where he was being attended by the doctors only as his parents ran from one side of the hospital to the other in search of their son but couldn’t recognize him laying there in that condition.
Talking about that tragic day, he said: “When my father reached the hospital and started searching for me among the dead and injured he found me nowhere. He was shocked and exhausted at the same time.
A doctor in the end told him that a child was lying there in one coroner in a badly injured condition but even then he was unable to recognize me.
I was unconscious for eight days and after gaining my senses when my mother reached the hospital and called my childhood nickname I responded to it faintly and they were able to find me eight days after the attack,”
He was then sent to UK for surgeries where he had to undergo a total of 12 sureries.
