A young girl has spoken for the first time of how she feared death after being shot in a racially aggravated attack in Bristol.

The 9-year-old was hit around 1.30pm in Chakeshill Drive in Brentry, a suburb about three miles north of the city centre.

She told an anti-racism charity: ‘I thought they had killed me’.

In the weeks since the attack, the youngster has been ‘too frightened to leave the house’ or make it into school after being ‘traumatised’.

Bushra Shaikh, founder of Run Racism Out – a British Pakistani-led anti-racism organisation, said she was drafted in by police to look after the girl’s mental well-being.

She told Metro: ‘The family wish to remain anonymous to the public and have their privacy upheld.

‘I can share, our Run Racism Out organisation was contacted by the pol

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