Graduate Student Killed in Boston Blasts Named as Lu Lingzi
The third victim of Monday's horrific Boston Marathon bombings has been named.
Lu Lingzi, a young Chinese graduate student of statistics at Boston University, originally from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, was one of three killed on Monday. The Chinese consulate in New York confirmed Tuesday that a woman from China had died in the bombings but did not reveal her name.
But as The New York Times reports, given the blogosphere, in China and elsewhere, it was impossible to keep her identity concealed. By Wednesday morning, the state-run news agency Xinhua was not only naming Lu Lingzi but also running her photo, picked up from a Hong Kong TV station.
On her Weibo account, The Times reports, Lu expressed a love for food, and her final post on Monday was a picture of "my wonderful breakfast."
Her personal interests, her page said, were "fine food, music, finance and economics." On April 6, she posted: "Ben & Jerry's ice cream, really every flavor tastes good."
Lu had apparently gone to the marathon to watch a friend run. "She said she wanted to have a boyfriend as soon as possible, because her family was worried that if she couldn’t find a boyfriend they would have to help," said her friend Lu Meixu, another Boston University student, according to The Times. "She hoped she could meet 'the one' as soon as possible."
The American Embassy in Beijing said it was in contact with Lu's family, as well as that of another grad student, from southwestern China, who was "gravely wounded" in the explosions.
In all, more than 170 people were injured Monday, and three people have died. The other two victims are Krystle M. Campbell, 29, and Martin Richard, 8.
Lu Lingzi, a young Chinese graduate student of statistics at Boston University, originally from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, was one of three killed on Monday. The Chinese consulate in New York confirmed Tuesday that a woman from China had died in the bombings but did not reveal her name.
But as The New York Times reports, given the blogosphere, in China and elsewhere, it was impossible to keep her identity concealed. By Wednesday morning, the state-run news agency Xinhua was not only naming Lu Lingzi but also running her photo, picked up from a Hong Kong TV station.
On her Weibo account, The Times reports, Lu expressed a love for food, and her final post on Monday was a picture of "my wonderful breakfast."
Her personal interests, her page said, were "fine food, music, finance and economics." On April 6, she posted: "Ben & Jerry's ice cream, really every flavor tastes good."
Lu had apparently gone to the marathon to watch a friend run. "She said she wanted to have a boyfriend as soon as possible, because her family was worried that if she couldn’t find a boyfriend they would have to help," said her friend Lu Meixu, another Boston University student, according to The Times. "She hoped she could meet 'the one' as soon as possible."
The American Embassy in Beijing said it was in contact with Lu's family, as well as that of another grad student, from southwestern China, who was "gravely wounded" in the explosions.
In all, more than 170 people were injured Monday, and three people have died. The other two victims are Krystle M. Campbell, 29, and Martin Richard, 8.
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