A British dad who was seen wandering the streets of Colombo in a blood-soaked T-shirt as he desperately searched for his wife, daughter, and son, has confirmed that they are among those killed by suicide bombers in Sri Lanka.
Ben Nicholson, 43, a British lawyer has revealed how his wife and two children were blown up at a breakfast table in Sri Lanka and said they had mercifully died instantly.
Shortly after the Easter Sunday massacre which killed nearly 300 people, Mr Nicholson wandered the streets desperate for news about his family’s whereabouts. He later discovered that his wife Anita, 42, son Alex, 14, and daughter Annabel 11, were killed in the restaurant bombing at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo when two suicide bombers walked in and blew themselves up at breakfast.
Mr Nicholson said they had “mercifully died instantly and with no pain or suffering”, in the Table One cafe on the second floor of the hotel, where they were staying on a family holiday.
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