SALT LAKE CITY — Sister Fanny Clain, the 20-year-old French woman who was one of four Mormon missionaries wounded in the March 22 Brussels airport terrorist bombing, has been released from a Belgian hospital.
There also was news Tuesday about the two missionaries who remain hospitalized because of the injuries they suffered in the attack.
Mason Wells, 19, one of the other three injured missionaries, underwent skin graft surgery on Monday and is recovering well at University Hospital in Salt Lake City, his parents said in statement.
Meanwhile, Sister Pam Norby, wife of one of the other injured missionaries, Elder Richard Norby, 66, will hold a news conference on Tuesday at 3 p.m. at the University of Utah Medical Center. She will be joined by their son, Jason, and Dr. Stephen Morris, medical director of the University of Utah Burn Center.
Clain is resting in the Paris area with her aunt as she recovers from second-degree burns and shrapnel injuries caused by two bombs detonated by suicide bombers and an infection in her blood caused by the shrapnel.
Clain is from Réunion Island, a French island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. She was to catch a flight to the United States on March 22, which is why the four missionaries were at the airport that day. She was scheduled to fly to Atlanta and then Salt Lake City so she could report to the Provo, Utah, Missionary Training Center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Clain is now expected to leave for the MTC as soon as early May, based on her health, according to France Paris Mission President Frédéric Babin.
She is determined to finish her mission.
Wells has been at University Hospital for three weeks, after a one-week stay at a Brussels hospital. Doctors removed skin from one of his thighs on Monday and grafted that skin on to the wounds on his right hand and left ankle, according to a update his parents, Chad and Kymberly Wells, provided to a family spokeswoman.
The hand procedure went well, but Wells is experiencing minor complications with his ankle, which will likely require future grafting and possibly a flap, his parents said. He is experiencing pain on his thigh where the skin was removed for the grafting.
"He will continue to stay in the hospital for treatment, but the family is pleased with his healing and progress," family spokeswoman Jeanette Bennett said. "Mason works hard in physical therapy daily to enhance his recovery. So far, his hospital highlight has been watching 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' with his family. He also feels much love and gratitude for the prayers and letters sent to him."
Norby returned to Utah on Saturday after spending 26 days in Belgian hospitals. He is now under care at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City recovering from second-degree burns, shrapnel injuries and an infection caused by shrapnel.
Norby drove Clain and her two zone leaders, Elder Mason Wells, 19, and Elder Joseph Dresden Empey, 20, to the airport early on the morning of March 22. The first bomb exploded while the four stood together in a check-in line in the departure hall.
The first blast broke Norby's left fibula and left heel and sprayed him with shrapnel. He also suffered second-degree burns to his face, ears, sides of his head, leg and the backs of his hands. He later suffered an infection while hospitalized in Brussels.
Doctors found shrapnel wounds up to 2 inches deep on Norby's neck, back, hip and legs. They told his wife it was a blessing he wasn't turned toward the explosions because the metal would have sheared vital organs.
Doctors placed Norby in a medically induced coma for four days after the attack to allow his body to heal. He had a feeding tube in place for about three weeks until doctors removed it last week.
He returned to Utah Saturday by air ambulance, accompanied by his wife.
The initial blast drove the iPad from Wells' hand, blew the watch off his left wrist and the shoe off his left foot. A large piece of shrapnel ruptured his left Achilles tendon, broke his left heel and tore off a large patch of skin near those wounds. He also suffered second-degree burns to his face and hand.
The explosion knocked out Empey, who received second-degree burns to his hands and face. He still has a chunk of shredded metal lodged on top of his left foot.
Wells and Empey returned to the United States on air ambulance flights. Wells flew to Utah on March 28. He is at University Hospital in Salt Lake City.
Empey returned March 29. Doctors released him from University Hospital on April 6 and he returned home to Santa Clara, Utah.
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