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Bicyclist killed by truck was MIT graduate

23-year-old was Myanmar native

By Meghan E. Irons

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 29, 2011

The bicyclist killed in a collision with a truck Tuesday was a 23-year-old native of Myanmar who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, school and law enforcement authorities said yesterday. Phyo N. Kyaw, who lived in Cambridge, was struck and mortally wounded about 7:40 p.m. at Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street, a busy intersection teeming with bikers, pedestrians, and motorists near MIT. Cambridge police said that in the past two years, there have been 27 accidents at the intersection.

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