A COLLEGE STUDENT who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend.
Victoria McGrath was killed on Sunday, along with her roommate at Northeastern University, Priscilla Perez Torres, the Boston college confirmed.
The other victims were identified as Canadian boxer Cody Nixon and his cousin James Portuondo.
Hours before the Ferrari crashed into a pole, Nixon had posted about renting it on Instagram.
“Just landed into Dubai picked up the Ferrari! Don’t worry I won’t speed ;),” he wrote.
Albayan News reports that driver and passengers were under the influence of alcohol.
McGrath, 23, received severe shrapnel injuries to her left leg from the first of two bombs placed near the marathon finish line on 15 April, 2013. Three people were killed and more than 260 others were injured in the bombing.
Bruce Mendelsohn, who was attending a post-marathon party in a building overlooking the finish line, rushed outside to help and saw McGrath lying on the ground, bleeding heavily from her left leg. Mendelsohn said he tied a scarf or t-shirt he found nearby around her leg as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, a move McGrath’s doctor later told him saved her life.
Mendelsohn flagged down a firefighter, who carried McGrath away from the scene in what became one of the most widely used photographs from the bombing.
McGrath later tracked down her rescuers and formed friendships with them, Mendelsohn said.
“At the time, I was angry that anyone could do such a thing,” Mendelsohn said of the bombing. “Now I’m angry that she’s been taken from us.”
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