{"id":160154,"date":"2013-07-22T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=160154"},"modified":"2013-07-22T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T19:43:40","slug":"confirmed-asiana-crash-survivor-killed-by-rescuers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/confirmed-asiana-crash-survivor-killed-by-rescuers\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Asiana Crash Survivor Killed by Rescuers"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Friday, a San Mateo, California coroner said that the injuries of Ye Mengyuan confirm that she was killed by a fire rescue vehicle after surviving the crash landing<\/strong><\/a> of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco on July 6<\/a>.\u00a0Ye was one of the three Chinese students who accounted for all of the crash’s fatalities<\/a>. The Guardian reports:<\/p>\n San Mateo County coroner Robert Foucrault said 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, a Chinese student, died of multiple blunt injuries consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n He did not say what that vehicle was, but San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said officials believe the girl was struck by a specialized fire vehicle.<\/p>\n “It’s very difficult and devastating news for all of us,” Hayes-White said.<\/p>\n Investigators believe the teenager was on the ground and not standing up when she was struck, Hayes-White said.<\/p>\n Foucrault declined to go into details on how investigators determined she was alive before she was struck, but said they could tell from internal hemorrhaging. [Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n