Brussels attacks: Teenager survivor was also at Boston Marathon and Paris

A teenager who was injured in the Brussels airport attack survived similar horrors at the Boston Marathon and in Paris. Mason Wells, a 19-year-old from Utah, is expected to make a full recovery after suffering a severed Achilles tendon, a head gash, shrapnel injuries and severe burns in the blast. Three years ago, Wells and his father were just a block away when a pressure-cooker bomb exploded while they were watching his mother run the Boston Marathon. He was also in Paris during the November 13 attacks.

Hopefully he’s run his lifelong odds and we’re done. I think it will make him a stronger person…Maybe the Boston experience was there to help him get through this experience.

Mason’s father, Chad

The teenager was in Brussels as he neared the end of a two-year Mormon mission in Europe. His father, Chad, said his family woke up to the latest news on the TV before calling his son’s mission president in France and found out his son was injured but alive. More than eight hours later, his parents finally spoke to their son, who was groggy and exhausted after surgery. He was said to be in good spirits. Two missionaries at the airport with him were also being treated in hospital after being injured in the blast.

This is the third time that sadly in our society that we have a connection to a bomb blast We live in a dangerous world and not everyone is kind and loving.

Chad Wells

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