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WASHINGTON – Local authorities confirmed on Friday (Sept 6) that Singaporean Tan Wei was among the 34 victims who died in a pre-dawn fire on a dive boat off the California coast earlier this week.
Her name was one of nine publicly released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office at a sombre press conference. The authorities said they have positively identified 18 victims so far.
The 26-year-old had recently graduated with a master’s degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and started work as a data scientist in Santa Barbara in June.
She was listed by the Sheriff’s Office as residing in Goleta, a coastal town of 31,000 next to Santa Barbara.
Ms Tan Wei’s older sister, Cheerin Tan, 29, had previously told The New Paper and CNA that DNA samples confirmed that her sister had died on the boat.
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