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A senior Mormon missionary who suffered severe burns in the March terrorist bombing at a Brussels airport has been released from a Salt Lake City hospital to finish recovering at his Lehi home.

The family of Richard Norby announced his Tuesday release from University Hospital on a family Facebook page.

"For our family, this day was an absolute miracle," the post reads.

Norby, 66, was being treated for shrapnel injuries to his legs and second- and third-degree burns. University of Utah physicians have said the injuries required several surgeries and skin grafts.

Norby and his wife, Pamela Norby, were serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brussels.

Norby was at the Brussels airport with three young LDS missionaries March 22, when two suicide bombers detonated the explosives they were carrying in large suitcases. A third, undetonated bomb was found later.

Missionaries Joseph Empey, 20, of Santa Clara, Mason Wells, 19, of Sandy, and Fanny Rachel Clain, 20, of Montelimar, France, were also wounded in the attack.

All were treated for injuries in Brussels. Empey and Wells returned to Utah for treatment at University Hospital and were released from missionary service. They have since returned home. Clain was treated in Brussels and was expected to depart for her missionary assignment in the United States.

Norby's continued recovery effort will include daily physical and occupational therapy, his family's Facebook posts said.

"The road to recovery remains long, but manageable," the post reads. "The outcome for our father remains unseen, but we share his optimism that, 'It will be OK, whatever OK is. It will be OK.' "

The family also expressed gratitude for medical personnel in Utah and Brussels who have cared for Norby and for those who have supported the family with prayers throughout his ordeal.