Eyewitness To Boston Blast: ‘I Tied At Least Five, Six Legs With Tourniquets’

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Roupen Bastajian, a 35-year-old state trooper from Rhode Island, described shifting from Boston Marathon participant to first responder after a deadly blast erupted Monday afternoon near the finish line of the race.

“These runners just finished and they don’t have legs now,” Bastajian told the New York Times. “So many of them. There are so many people without legs. It’s all blood. There’s blood everywhere. You got bones, fragments. It’s disgusting.”

Bastajian avoided injury from the bombings, putting him in a position to assist those who were wounded.

“We put tourniquets on,” Bastajian said. “I tied at least five, six legs with tourniquets.”

Read the entire Times piece here.

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