A 64-year-old retiree out to pick up a Thanksgiving turkey was struck by a stray bullet during a broad daylight Manhattan shootout — with the slug now lodged dangerously close to her spine.

Francisca Nunez was walking at West 204th Street and Broadway at 4:18 p.m. Monday when a gang of teen hoodlums opened fire, striking her in the buttocks, with the punks still on the loose, police said.

Now Nunez, who was planning to return home to the Dominican Republic next month, is at Harlem Hospital, where doctors have been unable to remove the bullet, longtime friend Jose Louis said.

“I’m angry,” Louis, who has known Nunez for 30 years, told The Post Wednesday. “They could have killed my friend. She could have got shot in the head, she could have got shot in the chest.

“It’s sad that it happene

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