Third Boston bomb victim a Chinese student

The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was a graduate student at Boston University who was originally from China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, a state-run Chinese newspaper reported today.

The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was a Chinese graduate student at Boston University who was originally from China’s northeastern city of Shenyang, a state-run Chinese newspaper reported today.

The Shenyang Evening News said on its official Twitter-like microblog account that the victim’s name is Lu Lingzi. An editor at the newspaper said Ms Lu’s father confirmed his daughter’s death when reporters visited the family home.