Boston Marathon victims include two brothers who each lost a leg

Metrowest Daily News/Ken Mcgagh / Reuters

Bystanders tend to an injured man following explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Simultaneous explosions ripped through the crowd at the finish line, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140.

By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News

Those wounded in the Boston Marathon bomb attack included two brothers who went to cheer on a friend, and each lost a leg, their mother told the Boston Globe.

Liz Norden told the newspaper she was home when she got a call on her cellphone from her younger son, who was in an ambulance.

"Ma, I'm hurt real bad," the 31-year-old told Norden.

He said his older brother was standing next to him when one of the two bombs went off just before 3 p.m. on Monday, but he didn't know what happened to him.

It wasn't long before Norden found out: the 33 year-old had also lost a leg in the explosion, she said.

The men, both roofers who had recently been laid off, had been taken to separate hospitals. The younger son's girlfriend was at a third with serious burns and other injuries, the mother said.

"I feel sick," she told the Globe, crying outside the Beth Israel Deaconess emergency room. "I think I could pass out."

She was being comforted by a friend, firefighter Mike Jefferson, ?the runner who her sons were waiting for near the end of the 26.2-mile race.

?I was a quarter-mile away from the finish line,? he said.

Three people were killed in Monday's twin bombings, which also injured at least 144 people. Authorities have not yet named a suspect in the attack.

Charles Krupa / AP

See images from the scene of the explosions.

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