Student from China in a coma in hospital
By Xu Chi |
April 17, 2013, Wednesday
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A CHINESE woman is among the injured in the Boston Marathon explosions, the Chinese consulate general in New York told Xinhua news agency.
Zhou Danling, a graduate of Wuhan University and now studying at Boston University, is in hospital in a coma.
No further details of her condition have been released.
Another Chinese woman, Lu Lingzi, a graduate of the Beijing Institute of Technology and also a student at Boston University, is missing.
A list of those taking part in the race shows that 87 Chinese nationals, aged between 20 and 65 and including 17 women, had registered. Netease.com reported that 28 were from the Chinese mainland with the rest from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Two runners from Taiwan, who were earlier reported to be missing, have been in contact and all seven runners from Taiwan are said to have escaped injury.
Fifteen runners were from China Vanke Co, the nation's biggest developer. The company's Chairman Wang Shi was among the spectators and witnessed the explosions.
Chinese sports authorities said there were no professional runners from China at the event.
Wang told China Central Television: "I heard a heavy thud and saw white smoke rising from the right side of the race course near the finish line."
He added: "It was not until 15 seconds later when another thud was heard that I realized there was something wrong."
Journalism student Kiva Kuan wrote on her microblog on China's weibo.com: "I ran with the crowds. It was a total mess as everyone is running toward no direction. I knew I should stand and report as a journalist, but I was so helpless that I couldn't even find a place to hide.
"The crowds pushed me forward and when I looked back, a woman shouted: 'Run, run run! What are you looking at?"
Zhou Danling, a graduate of Wuhan University and now studying at Boston University, is in hospital in a coma.
No further details of her condition have been released.
Another Chinese woman, Lu Lingzi, a graduate of the Beijing Institute of Technology and also a student at Boston University, is missing.
A list of those taking part in the race shows that 87 Chinese nationals, aged between 20 and 65 and including 17 women, had registered. Netease.com reported that 28 were from the Chinese mainland with the rest from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Two runners from Taiwan, who were earlier reported to be missing, have been in contact and all seven runners from Taiwan are said to have escaped injury.
Fifteen runners were from China Vanke Co, the nation's biggest developer. The company's Chairman Wang Shi was among the spectators and witnessed the explosions.
Chinese sports authorities said there were no professional runners from China at the event.
Wang told China Central Television: "I heard a heavy thud and saw white smoke rising from the right side of the race course near the finish line."
He added: "It was not until 15 seconds later when another thud was heard that I realized there was something wrong."
Journalism student Kiva Kuan wrote on her microblog on China's weibo.com: "I ran with the crowds. It was a total mess as everyone is running toward no direction. I knew I should stand and report as a journalist, but I was so helpless that I couldn't even find a place to hide.
"The crowds pushed me forward and when I looked back, a woman shouted: 'Run, run run! What are you looking at?"
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