Global & Disaster Medicine

A “major arrest” in France: The suspect is a French national who was in an “advanced stage” of a terror plot.

NBC News

Brussels:  scenes of incredible carnage but also of heroism and love;

“…..The baggage security worker dove behind a machine to hide. When he got up a few minutes later he saw people on the ground, body parts and blood.

“The blood was everywhere,” said Youla, an immigrant from the Ivory Coast.

Youla said he sprung into action to help as many people as he could. Fear didn’t figure into the equation.

“I wasn’t afraid,” he explained. “If I was was going to die, I would’ve died.”

There were two police officers who’d lost their legs. A woman with shards of glass sticking out of her.

Youla put the basic first-aid skills he’d learned as a Boy Scout to work, tying tourniquets and applying bandages because “the blood was running, running.”

One woman was crying out “help me, help me,” he recalled. Youla said he picked her up and carried her out….”


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