LONDON – Three months after she was shot in the head for daring to say girls should be able to get an education, a 15-year-old Pakistani hugged her nurses and smiled as she walked out of a Birmingham hospital.

In images released Friday by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Malala Yousufzai waved to a guard and smiled shyly as she cautiously strode down the hospital corridor talking to nurses.

“She is quite well and happy on returning home – as we all are,” Malala’s father, Ziauddin, told The Associated Press.