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Ghent, Belgium - March 25, 2016
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad and Kymberly Wells, parents of Brussels attacks survivor Mason Wells:
Kymberly Wells : "It's overwhelming."
Chad Wells: "It's a whirlwind, you know, we're both trying to process everything that's happened. There's been so much that's been going on, but the one constant through all this is the love and support that we felt from so may people that we know and don't know, globally, you know, and across our country the outreaching of love was fabulous and the support has been incredible."
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kymberly Wells, mother of Brussels attacks survivor, Mason Wells:
"We saw what was going on in Brussels and I got upset and scared pretty quickly. My husband got on the phone and made some calls. We were able to reach Mason's mission president in Paris and he told us the information that he knew. He knew that Mason was at the airport, he knew Mason was injured. But he also knew, from what he could understand, it wasn't life threatening and that he was getting help. And so we got some immediate peace with that."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Chad Wells, father of Mason Wells:
"There is two ways you can turn, you can become bitter and angry about things, or you can turn to God and let things go entirely and turn over to him, and that's what we tried to do and just say, 'This is bigger than us, this is bigger than Mason, we are just grateful we are alive, we survived this, he survived this horrible incident and others did survive.' Our hearts go out to those that didn't. It makes me sick to know that many didn't make it."
STORYLINE:
The parents of a US teenager, who survived the Brussels attacks, said on Friday they were overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and love from people across the world.
Chad and Kymberly Wells said they were grateful their son Mason was among the survivors yet again.
Mason Wells, a 19-year-old from Sandy, Utah, is expected to make a full recovery from the bombing attack at the Brussels airport on Tuesday, which left him with a surgery scar, severed Achilles tendon, head gash, shrapnel injuries and severe burns.
Three years ago, Wells and his father felt the ground shake and narrowly escaped death from an April 2013 attack in the US, when a pressure-cooker bomb exploded a block away from where they were watching his mother run the Boston Marathon.
The former high school football and lacrosse player had four months left on his two-year Mormon mission, and was planning to major in engineering at the University of Utah next fall.
Other Mormon missionaries at the Brussels airport were also hospitalised.
Richard Norby, 66, and Joseph Empey, 20, were with Wells and have incurred serious injuries from the blast.
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