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Mormon Missionary Just Injured in Brussels Bombing was also at Boston Bombing

An Associated Press reporter stormed out of a State Dept. briefing earlier today after a spokesman dodged a question regarding how many Americans were killed or injured during the terrorist attack in Brussels.

Over 30 people were killed and 200-plus were injured in the blast, one being a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from Utah – who was also in Boston when the Tsarnaev’s set off pressure cookers at the Marathon.

From BostonGlobe:

Surviving a major bombing is the extraordinary — and repeated — situation that one Utah teen can live to tell about.

Mason Wells, a 19-year-old from Sandy, Utah, is expected to make a full recovery from the bombing attack at the Brussels airport Tuesday, which left him with a surgery scar, severed Achilles tendon, head gash, shrapnel injuries and severe burns.

Wells had once again found himself at the center of a major attack — standing within feet of a bomb that exploded at the Belgian airport. The blasts in the Belgian capital killed 31 people and wounded dozens at the airport and a subway station.

Three years ago, Wells and his father felt the ground shake and narrowly escaped death from an April 2013 attack in the U.S., when a pressure-cooker bomb exploded a block away from where they were watching his mother run the Boston Marathon.

‘‘Hopefully he’s run his lifelong odds and we’re done,’’ said Chad Wells about the oldest of their five children. ‘‘I think it will make him a stronger person…Maybe the Boston experience was there to help him get through this experience.’’

How crazy is that?

Mason is expected to recover fully, which is obviously great to hear.

Wells had four months left on his two-year Mormon mission, and was planning on majoring in engineering at the University of Utah.

Mason intended to reapply at the Naval Academy after missing the cut upon completion of high school.

Best of luck, my friend.

Get better!

 

 

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