The bombs that tore through the Brussels airport Tuesday seriously wounded three Mormon missionaries from Utah, leaving one with burns and shrapnel injuries, and sent a French missionary from their group to the hospital, church officials said.
The three Utah men serving in Paris were close to an explosion, but the 20-year-old French woman was in a different area of the airport and received minor injuries. The bomb blasts in the Belgian capital killed 31 people and wounded dozens.
Richard Norby, 66; Joseph Empey, 20; and Mason Wells, 19, were hospitalized with serious injuries, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said a statement. They were at the airport with Fanny Rachel Clain, of Montelimar, France, who was on her way to a mission in Cleveland.
Empey was doing well after being treated for second-degree burns to his hands, face and head, his parents, Court and Amber Empey, said in a statement. He also had surgery for shrapnel injuries to his legs.
