KARACHI, May 21: The 14-year-old girl, Noor Jehan, who had suffered five bullet wounds about a month back, died in her hospital bed early Sunday morning.

The 14-year old girl was wounded in a brutal attack allegedly by her two cousins to avenge rejection of a marriage proposal.

Police said she crawled out of a ditch where she was thrown after being shot four times in the legs and once in the abdomen in the eastern outskirts of the city on April 18. A passer-by saw her informed police about it.

"They shot me with several bullets ... I fell into the ditch and they drove away," she said in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center. "They thought I was dead but ... somehow I got the strength to come out,” the wounded girl had told newsmen from her hospital bed a few days after she was admitted to the hospital.

Doctors at the Jinnah Hospital said the victim was suffering from a serious infection in the abdomen caused by the bullet wound.

Police said her cousins Khadim and Sajan Lolai attempted to kill her after her father refused to let her marry Khadim, who was wanted by police in other murder and kidnapping for ransom cases.

After her father's refusal, the cousins accused her of having illicit relations with the son of the landlord of her father's farm in Ratu Dero.