First Boston, now Brussels ... the teenager who survived two deadly terror bombings

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 centre of a major attack — standing within metres of a bomb that exploded at the Belgian airport. The blasts in the Belgian capital killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens at the airport and a subway train.

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.