A Chinese citizen was killed in yesterday's bombings in Boston, the Chinese Consulate confirmed Tuesday night. The victim was also a Boston University graduate student, the school said a few hours earlier in a statement.
The Chinese Consulate declined to identify the victim, at the request of the victim's family. Likewise, the university declined to name the student it said was killed, just as officials had done earlier in the evening at a press conference, pending permission from the student's family.
Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings, a Hong Kong-based broadcaster with ties to the Chinese government, said the victim was a woman from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang who was a graduate student studying statistics at B.U., according to the Associated Press.
According to Boston University, the student killed was watching the race near the finish line with two friends when the bombs exploded. One of those friends, also a B.U. grad student, was wounded and in stable condition at Boston Medical Center, it said in its statement.
Similarly, the Chinese Consulate said that in addition to the Chinese citizen who was killed, another Chinese citizen was wounded and is now in stable condition after surgery.
The Boston Globe reported that the consulate had identified the injured Chinese woman as Zhou Danling, whom China's official news agency Xinhua described as a grad student studying actuarial science at B.U.
In addition to the victim identified by Boston University as a graduate student and by the Chinese Consulate as a Chinese citizen, two other victims died in the bombings Monday.
Their families have already identified them as 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston, and 29-year-old Krystal Campbell, of Medford, Mass.
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