VOA慢速英語：美國波士頓爆炸案幸存女孩在迪拜出車禍身亡

美國波士頓爆炸案幸存女孩在迪拜出車禍身亡

A college student who survived the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 has died in a car accident in Dubai.

2013年波士頓馬拉松爆炸案幸存者之一維多利亞·麥格拉斯，近日在迪拜的一場車禍中不幸身亡。

Victoria McGrath was a student at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The university said in a statement that McGrath and another student, Priscilla Perez Torres, were killed during the weekend.

維多利亞·麥格拉斯是美國東北大學(xué)的學(xué)生，該大學(xué)位于馬賽諸塞州的波士頓。

The two friends, both 23 years old, were on a personal trip to the Persian Gulf country in the Middle East.

Boston Marathon bombing victim Victoria McGrath, 20, center, thanks people who help her when she was injured and help her recovery during the Boston Strong Concert: An Evening of Support and Celebration at the TD Garden on Thursday, May 30, 2013 in Boston

麥格拉斯和她的朋友都是23歲，她們當(dāng)時正在中東的波斯灣國家旅游。

News reports say the driver and another passenger were also killed in the crash of a Ferrari sports car. The driver was identified as Canadian Boxer Cody Nixon.

新聞報道司機(jī)和其他一名乘客也在這次法拉利車禍中死亡。該司機(jī)為加拿大拳擊手科迪·尼克松。

The U.S. Embassy in Dubai declined to comment.

美國駐迪拜大使館對此事件不愿評論。

McGrath survived the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013. The terror attack killed three people and injured more than 200. She received injuries from shrapnel that struck her left leg when the first of two bombs exploded.

麥格拉斯是2013年4月波士頓馬拉松爆炸案的幸存者。該恐怖襲擊致3人死亡，200余人受傷。當(dāng)時先爆炸的兩個炸彈彈片擊中了她的左腿。

McGrath and a firefighter, James Plourde, appear in an AP news agency photo from the attack area.

美聯(lián)社對這場襲擊的報道中有麥格拉斯和一名消防員James Plourde的照片。

Plourde said he and his family were “devastated with the loss of our dearest friend,” the CBS News website reported.

Plourde說他和他的家人“對我們最親愛朋友的離開感到非常震驚”，哥倫比亞廣播公司報道。

McGrath’s parents told AP that their daughter responded to the bombing with determination and humility. They say she worked with poor and disabled children. After the Boston Marathon bombings, she also worked with veterans, they said.

麥格拉斯對美聯(lián)社表示，他們的女兒面對爆炸時很沉著。他們說她一直幫助窮人和殘疾的兒童工作。他們說，她在波士頓馬拉松爆炸事件后，還幫助慰問退伍老兵一起。

Northeastern University President Joseph Aoun sent a statement to the university community about the accident. He called McGrath’s and Torres’s deaths “a heartbreaking loss to their families, friends, and to all of us in the Northeastern family.”

東北大學(xué)校長約瑟夫·奧恩寫信將死訊告知東北社區(qū)。他將麥格拉斯和托雷斯的死稱為“她家人、朋友和所有東北部人們沉痛的損失”。

He said McGrath was from Weston, Connecticut. Perez Torres came to the university from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.

他說麥格拉斯來自康乃迪克州，韋斯頓。佩雷斯.托雷斯來自波多黎各的瓜伊納沃。

McGrath was studying business at the university in Boston.

麥格拉斯在波士頓的大學(xué)主修商業(yè)。