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Mother Killed in NJ Train Crash Received MBA From FIU

The woman who was killed when a New Jersey Transit train crashed into a terminal in Hoboken Thursday morning received her MBA from Florida International University.

Fabiola Bittar de Kroon graduated from FIU in 2011, the school confirmed Friday. She was a native of Brazil but lived in South Florida while attending FIU's College of Business.

De Kroon, 34, had recently moved back to the United States with her husband and daughter.

Officials said de Kroon was standing on the platform at the Hoboken Terminal when a train traveling too fast crashed through a barrier and into the station, killing de Kroon amid falling debris and injuring more than 100 other people.

De Kroon's husband Daan was on a business trip in Pennsylvania, NBC New York reported. He rushed home, and when he arrived at the day care to pick up their daughter, he asked the owner for advice: how do you tell an 18-month-old that her mother is gone?

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