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Lauren Li, an honors student at the University of Minnesota, diedin the icy Chicago River. (Family photo / January15, 2014)
最新消息，在芝加哥河中失蹤的華裔女生李若蘭(Lauren Li)被證實死亡，尸體于15日下午1點在落水區域附近被發現。
據CBS報道當地時間13日凌晨，在芝加哥河畔，發生了一起因為撿手機而一死一傷一失蹤的慘案。目前已經證實，遇難的21歲女性為就讀明尼蘇達大學生物科學系四年級的華裔女生李若蘭，另一名男死者和傷者則被證實為越南華人。警方感嘆，“為了一個手機，真是浪費生命”。
13日，明尼蘇達州一名男子因為手機掉進冰冷的芝加哥河水中，為撈手機，那名男子落水死亡。為救出那名男子，他的兩個朋友跳入水中，隨后那名男性朋友獲救住院，傷勢危急；而那名女性則不幸失蹤，15日被證實遇難。
據哥倫比亞廣播公司芝加哥臺(CBS Chicago)報道，警方說，一名26歲的男子午夜之后在芝加哥河濱道(ChicagoRiverwalk)行走時手機掉入河里。他爬在欄桿上試圖抓住手機，但掉進冰冷的水中。
和他一起的兩名朋友也跳進河里救他。目擊者說，他們聽到求救聲音，撥打911電話報警。警方和消防局潛水員到冰水中搜尋3人，將2名男子拉出水面，但那名女子仍然失蹤；凌晨3點左右，潛水員放棄搜救。15日下午，女子的尸體被發現。
Divers find missingwoman's body in Chicago River
Police divers found the body ofa missing college student Wednesday afternoon, two and a half daysafter the Minnesota woman vanished beneath the surface of thefrigid Chicago River.
Chicago police said Lauren Li,21, slipped into the icy river while attempting to help her friend,Ken Hoang, 26, who had fallen into the water while trying toretrieve a dropped cell phone shortly after midnight on Monday. He,too, died.
The end to the search for Licame hours after another friend, the lone survivor, was releasedfrom a hospital. Quoc-Viet Phan Hoang, 23, also fell into the rivernear River Esplanade Park, not far from Lake ShoreDrive.
The Cook County medicalexaminer's office said the woman was identified Wednesday afternoonas Lauren Li, after police said earlier that they had identifiedthe body as that of the woman who had disappeared in thewater.
Li, an honors student at theUniversity of Minnesota who aspired to become a doctor, wasvisiting Chicago with her friends while on a semester break fromschool.
Li’s parents, both Chineseimmigrants, hurried to Chicago from their Minneosta home to awaitword on the search effort.
“That’s a relief to me, ifnothing else,” Li’s older brother, Frank, said Wednesday bytelephone after learning a body had been discovered about 1 p.m.near where Li had gone missing.
Police tied a ribbon of yellowcrime scene tape to a railing near where they found thebody.
According to a police reportobtained by the Tribune, Ken Hoang was taking photos from theriverwalk when he dropped his cell phone onto the ice below. Heclimbed over a fence onto the ice but fell into the water. Li thendropped down onto the ice to rescue him but also slipped into theriver. She yelled out for help and Phan Hoang then stepped onto theice and fell into the water, police said.
The Cook County medicalexaminer’s office ruled Tuesday that Hoang drowned and that alcoholcontributed to his death.
Li’s autopsy is scheduled forThursday.
Divers had made repeated effortsto find Li’s body since Monday, even using a small sonar device toprobe the ice-covered river. Search efforts were hampered byfreezing conditions, the ice and zero visibilityunderwater.
University of Minnesotaofficials said Li was a senior in the school’s College ofBiological Science and active in campus Asian-American studentorganizations. Hoang, who was born in Vietnam, was a liberal artsstudent who attended the university until 2010, a campus officialsaid.
“The University of Minnesotaextends our sympathy to the families of Ken Hoang and Lauren Li,both of whom died in a tragic accident in the Chicago River. We arerelieved both families now have closure,” Danita Brown Young, theuniversity’s dean of students said in a statement.
The only survivor, Phan Hoang,was released Wednesday from Presence St. Joseph Hospital,spokeswoman Linda O'Dwyer said.
“I lost two good friends,” PhanHoang said a statement issued Tuesday. “It’s not easy seeing yourfriend drift away and having one die in your arms. I have neverfelt so helpless in my life.”
A group of young people whoidentified themselves as friends and family of the victims brieflyvisited the riverside park Wednesday before divers found Li’sbody.
They held each other, left abouquet of flowers at the scene and stopped to take photos of theicy water.
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