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Tufts Student Killed In New Zealand

A car accident took the lives of Julia Lee and her parents.

Tufts student Julia Lee died in a car accident in New Zealand on Tuesday, Feb. 17, according to the Boston Globe. The crash also killed her parents and hospitalized her younger brother.

Lee, a computer science major in her junior year, had gone abroad to study at the University of Auckland.

The source cites a statement Tufts administrators issued to faculty and students describing Lee as a “young woman of tremendous vibrancy and compassion.”

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The Globe story can be found here.

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