Sara Zelenak, the 21-year-old au pair who has been missing since the London terror attack, is the second Australian to be confirmed killed by terrorists on Saturday.
“Sara Zelenak is confirmed dead, they found her body & has DNA tests confirmed. Thank-you for all the overwhelming love & support from everyone,” her mother Julie Wallace posted on Facebook today.
While Foreign Minister Julie Bishop expressed her sadness over the death of “two beautiful young women”, she hadn’t confirmed either woman’s name at the insistence of British authorities.
Kirsty Boden, 28, and Sara Zelenak, 21.
Ms Wallace said her daughter had only just missed out on being involved in the other two terror attacks in the UK this year – the Manchester bombing and Westminster Bridge attack.
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“The one with the policeman being stabbed three months ago, she was there the day before in the exact spot,” Ms Wallace said.
“The one with Ariana Grande’s [concert], she was going to go to the concert [but didn’t].
“Everything she has just missed.”
Nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, was also confirmed dead by her family.
Initially from the town of Loxton in the state of South Australia, she was running to help victims of the senseless attack when she was fatally injured.
It’s unclear whether she was killed when a trio of fanatics ploughed a white van into pedestrians on London Bridge or afterwards, when they stabbed people as part of their deadly terror-driven rampage.
Kirsty was a volunteer lifesaver at Tamarama Surf Club before moving to England, and the club is “deeply shaken” at the loss of the “fearless, compassionate, much-loved lifesaver”.
Kirsty during her lifesaving duties at Tamarama Beach.
Seven people lost their lives during the horrific attacks and dozens more were injured.
Our thoughts are with the families at this tragic time.
