The number of deaths from the attacks stood at 290 on Monday, the vast majority Sri Lankans
Relatives bury three members of the same family, all died at Easter Sunday bomb blast at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on Monday, April 22, 2019.The true toll of Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka was starting to come into focus Monday, as family members, government officials and news reports offered the first glimpses of the people who lost their lives.
“People were in pieces,” Silviya, 26, said. “Blood was everywhere. I closed my son’s eyes, took him out, passed him off to a relative and ran back inside to look for my family.” She and her daughter, Nisanga Mayadunne, were among those killed at the Shangri-La Hotel, in the capital, Colombo, according to news reports. Nisanga Mayadunne studied at the University of London and lived in Colombo, according to her Facebook page.
Three of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen’s four children were among the victims killed in the Colombo attacks, the Danish media reported. Footwear and personal belongs of victims kept close to the scene of a suicide bombing at St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka.Ravindran Fernando, who worked at a restaurant close to St. Anthony’s Shrine, was killed while attending Mass with his family.As the service started, Fernando took a place with his son in the back of the church. His wife, Delicia Fernando, and the couple’s two daughters stood in the front.
He had been on a leave of absence from the school this year and living in Sri Lanka, Rachel Kane, the middle school principal, wrote in a letter sent to the students’ families. One of them, K.G. Hanumantharayappa, was a businessman from the southern Indian city of Bangalore who had only been in Sri Lanka for a few days, his nephew, Rajath, said by telephone. Hanumantharayappa was among five Indian victims of the attacks who had been identified as of Monday afternoon by Indian officials.
Kowalski was a senior leader of technical services for Pearson, an educational media company. He was on a business trip to Sri Lanka, where he worked with several engineering teams, according to his LinkedIn profile. It was his second visit to the country in three years, and he was planning to work alongside colleagues with whom he had become friends, said his mother, Inge Kowalski, who lives in Milwaukee.
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