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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Three people who survived the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday recalled seeing the first of a pair of explosions but not having enough time to react before the second homemade bomb went off, tearing off their legs. Federal prosecutors called victims to the stand as they tried to persuade a jury to sentence convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, to death for his role in the attack that killed three people and injured 264 others. Heather Abbott recalled she had been waiting outside a restaurant near the race's finish line on April 15, 2013, when the first bomb went off in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. "I saw smoke and started hearing people scream and immediately what came to mind was footage I had seen on 9/11 when the (New York World Trade Center) buildings collapsed.
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