He was an employee at a restaurant nearby, according to the New York Times.ĭuring mass, Fernando took a seat at the back of the church with his son, while his wife and two daughters sat near the front. Ravindran Fernando was killed while attending mass with his wife and three children at St. Malia and Sasha Obama both graduated from Sidwell. “We are beyond sorry not to get the opportunity to welcome Kieran to the Middle School.” “Kieran was passionate about learning, he adored his friends and he was incredibly excited about returning to Sidwell Friends,” the letter said, according to the Times. He was a student at Sidwell Friends-an elite private school in Washington D.C.-but was on a leave of absence and living in Sri Lanka, the news outlets reported, citing a letter the school sent to parents. Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, a fifth-grade boy who loved learning, was killed in the Sri Lanka bombings, according to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

They attended mass at the church every Sunday. The family had moved to Sri Lanka from Melbourne in 2014, after Suriaaratchi started a consultancy business, Kolonne said. And exactly the same… next my wife is there,” Kolonne told the channel.

“I just saw my daughter on the floor and I tried to lift her up, she was already dead. Suriaaratchi’s husband, Sudesh Kolonne, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he walked out of the church ahead of his family moments before the blast. Manik Suriaaratchi and her daughterĪustralian entrepreneur Manik Suriaaratchi and her 10-year-old daughter, Alexendria, were killed at St. The Star reported that Chowshury’s body will be sent back to Bangladesh on Wednesday.

Chowdhury’s father was also injured in the blast. Chowdhury’s family was on vacation at time they were guests at one of the hotels that was targeted by the bombings.Ĭhowdhury is the grandson of Sheikh Selim, a Bangladeshi member of parliament. Zayan Chowdhury, the 8-year-old grandson of a prominent Bangladeshi politician, was killed in the attack, according to the Daily Star. These are some of the victims of the Easter attacks: Zayan Chowdhury Officials have identified about 30 other victims who hailed from other nations, including India, China and Denmark, according to the AP. At least four Americans were among the dead, a State Department spokesperson told TIME on Monday.

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