Asiana Airlines crash death toll rises to three; state media name victim
The girl was part of a group of students from eastern China who were visiting the United States to attend summer camp, one of the trip organizers said
The death toll from the Asiana Airlines plane crash in San Francisco last weekend rose to three as a girl in critical condition since the accident died.
Chinese state media identified her as Liu Yipeng. China News said she went to school in the city of Jiangshan, in Zhejiang province with the other two victims killed.
No one yet knows whether the two teenagers who died at the scene lived through the initial impact. But police and fire officials confirmed that Ye Mengyuan, 16, was hit by a fire truck racing to extinguish the blazing Boeing 777.
She was covered in fire-retardant foam, lying on the ground near the fuselage, Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman, said.
Her friend Wang Linjia, 17, was passengers who did not get immediate medical help. Rescuers did not spot her until 14 minutes after the crash.
Her body was found near a sea wall at the edge of the runway, along with three flight attendants who were flung onto the tarmac while still buckled into their seats. Linjia was not in her seat.
Moments after the crash, while rescuers tried to help passengers near the burning fuselage, Linjia and the flight attendants lay almost 610 metres away. A group of survivors called emergency services and tried to help them.