THIS is the harrowing moment a gang of female thugs rounded on a terrified Egyptian student she waited for a bus before leaving her with fatal head injuries.

Mariam Moustafa, 18, was left in a coma and later died after being set upon by the feral gang outside a shopping centre.

6 Mariam Moustafa, 18, was attacked outside the intu Victoria Centre, Nottingham, on Tuesday, February 20 at around 8pm Credit: BPM Media

Now her family have released horrifying footage of her cowering on a bus bench as the gang surround her.

She had been shopping in Nottingham city centre before being repeatedly assaulted by the women in an unprovoked attack on Parliament Street.

The engineering student was rushed to Nottingham City Hospital and placed in an induced coma but died on Wednesday.

Her uncle Amr ElHariry, 46, said two of the girls responsible had attacked Mariam and her sister Malak, 16, four months before the fatal assault.

6 The attack continued on the number 27 bus

Speaking from Cairo, he said: "Two of the girls had actually attacked Mariam and Malak four months ago and broke Malak's leg.

"Their parents went to the police who just filed the complaint and that was all - that was a warning, they should've acted.

"They started to beat her, kicking and punching her all over, she ran away but they chased after her. She didn't even know these girls.

"Mariam got a bus and ran on, and told the bus driver to not let them on because they were beating her but he said he couldn't do that.

6 Mariam Moustafa seen in a coma at Nottingham City Hospital just days after the attack Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

6 Her family believe she was targeted in a racially-motivated attack by a group of women who had previously hurled abuse at her in the street Credit: Supplied as a technical service. No is implied or inferred.

"I don't understand why he didn't help her from the start and why just one person stepped in to intervene. Its disgraceful really.

"They chased her to the top floor and continued to beat her, a man tried to stop them buy standing the middle of them.

"But they continued to batter her until she lost consciousness that is when the bus driver acted, he called an ambulance for her.

A 17-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm and was subsequently released on conditional bail.

A Home Office post-mortem examination is due to take place.

6 She had been shopping in Nottingham city centre before being repeatedly assaulted by the women in an unprovoked attack on Parliament Street Credit: Alamy

Mariam, who was a Central College engineering student in Beeston, is understood to have suffered a bleed on the brain as well as a stroke during the attack.

She was reportedly punched several times before she was further verbally assaulted after getting on to the number 27 bus.

Mariam, who had just been offered a place at university in London, had originally been discharged, but started to deteriorate at home and was rushed back to hospital.

Lawyer Emad Abu Hussein, from the Egyptian Embassy in London, said: "Mariam has been in coma for three days after she underwent a critical surgery in the brain to treat her deteriorated condition.

6 The engineering student was rushed to Nottingham City Hospital and placed in an induced coma but died on Wednesday Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

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"The hospital sent her home despite her severe cerebral haemorrhage."

Detective Chief Inspector Mat Healey, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "Our thoughts are with the woman's family who we are giving support to at this difficult time.

"Our investigation is ongoing and extensive enquiries have already been completed but we're urging anyone with any information that could help us with our enquiries to get in touch with us as soon as possible.

"We know there were a lot of people standing at the bus stop when the assault happened and we're urging them to please come forward with any information which could help us."

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