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Boston blasts: Story of bravery as man, who lost son in Iraq war, helped victims seconds after terror attack

Boston, Apr 17: It was an act that legends are made of. Costa Rican immigrant Carlos Arredondo lost his son Alexander in the Iraq war. An anti-war protester, Carlos was present at the Boston Marathon



‘I jumped the fence after the first explosions and all I saw was a puddle of blood and people with lost limbs,' he told ABC News. ‘I saw adults, much younger than myself—ladies, men, pretty much everyone was knocked out.'



In one chilling photograph  Arredondo  was shown pinching shut the femoral artery on one of the man's part-severed legs using his hand as they rush him to an ambulance.

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