By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:10 EST, 18 April 2013 | UPDATED: 17:45 EST, 18 April 2013 President Obama has visited the bedside of dozens of Boston Marathon bombing victims, including Karen Rand - who lost her best friend in the horrific blasts. After attending the interfaith service in Boston on Thursday morning, he visited with hospitalized victims still recovering from the devastating twin blasts. Miss Rand was one of them. She was waiting near the finish line with her best friend Krystle Campbell to cheer on Karen's boyfriend when the first explosion hit. Scroll down for video Emotional visit: President Obama visited the bedside of Karen Rand- who lost her best friend Krystle Campbell in the Boston Marathon blasts - on Thursday
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President visits Karen Rand, who was injured as she cheered on her boyfriend at the finish line of the race
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She was accompanied by her friend Krystle Campbell, who was killed in the first blast
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Father was told that she had survived
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Miss Rand had been mistaken for her Krystle because she was carrying her Identification
Victim: @placeholder's parents had believed she survived for 12 hours and only learned she had died after going into the hospital room and finding Miss Rand instead