The third victim in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing has been identified as Lu Lingzi, a Chinese graduate student at Boston University.
Boston University and the Chinese Consulate General in New York have said the victim was a graduate student at the school, but the consulate said her family asked that no personal details be disclosed. But a classmate, a Chinese university official and a state-run newspaper in her home city have said she was Lu Lingzi, who accompanied a friend to watch the Boston Marathon from near where the blasts shook the streets.
According to the Associated Press, The Shenyang Evening News reported Wednesday that Lu was originally from Shenyang, a city in northeast China. An editor at the Evening News, which is state-run, said that Lu’s father had confirmed his daughter’s death to reporters who visited the family’s home.
The Times reported that Chinese Internet had been filled with “mournful messages” about Lu.
