The third victim killed at the Boston Marathon has been identified as a female Chinese national who was studying at Boston University.
The Chinese consulate in New York confirmed tonight that a Chinese citizen had died in the bomb attacks.
The family has asked that the graduate student not be named publicly.
The victim was one of three Chinese nationals - all graduate students studying at American universities - watching near the finish line of the marathon on Monday.
She was injured and is listed in stable condition at Boston Medical Center.
The injured student has been identified as Zhou Danling by China’s official Xinhua News Agency, which quoted an unnamed official from the Chinese consulate in New York.
The report said Zhou is in coma and her mother has asked for help in getting to the United States to visit her wounded daughter.
The third student in the group was miraculously unharmed.
Boston University has confirmed one of its student has been hospitalized in stable condition.
Robert Hill, dean of Marsh Chapel, visited the injured student twice and said she underwent surgery on Monday and on Tuesday, according to Boston University Today.
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'She is doing well,' says Hill. 'She has her friends around her, and she will soon have family around her.'
Zhou is reportedly a graduate of Wuhan University in central China, and currently a student at Boston University in actuarial science, according to a Xinhua report.
'She cannot talk now but can communicate with pen and paper,' the consulate said.
A memorial is set up for the victims. The third person killed by the terror blasts has been identified as a graduate student at Boston University, but her name has not been released pending family notification
Boston is filled with colleges and there a handful of students among the 183 injured.
Three Tufts University students, seven Emerson College students, three Northeastern University students, two Boston College students, and one Berklee College of Music student, according to the schools.
Boston College identified its two injured students as M.B.A. candidate Liza Cherney and law student Brittany Loring, according to Boston.com.
'The two spectators were hospitalized with injuries resulting from the explosions near the Marathon finish line,' the school said.