At least 4 Americans killed in Sri Lanka blasts, State Dept. says. A D.C.-area 5th-grader was among the dead, The Post confirmed.
By Katie Mettler Katie Mettler Reporter covering breaking news and features Email Bio Follow April 22 at 1:50 PM Eight separate bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday left 290 people dead and another 500 hundred injured. A day after the coordinated explosions, which mostly targeted Sri Lanka’s capital city of Colombo, the names and stories of those who died are beginning to trickle out.
Officials at an elite Washington-area private school, Sidwell Friends, confirmed the death of one of its students in an email to parents. The fifth grade boy, Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, had been on leave for the last year in Sri Lanka and was killed in the bomb attacks Sunday. St. Anthony’s is a common tourist destination, as are the three luxury hotels also attacked in Colombo. Sri Lanka officials said 39 of the victims were foreign tourists, and another 28 were wounded.One of the foreign victims was Dieter Kowalski of Denver. His death was confirmed by his family and employer.
“We’re angry that a good man, who took simple pleasure in fixing things, has been killed, along with many others, by evil men and women who know only how to destroy," John Fallon, the chief executive officer of Pearson, wrote in an email to employees Monday, TV station Fox 6 reported.Kowalski was a senior leader for Pearson’s operation technical services team.
Povlsen and his family were visiting Sri Lanka for the Easter holiday, the BBC reported. Three of his four children were killed in the bombing attacks, a Bestseller spokesman told BBC. Just before the explosion, Mayadunne’s daughter, Nisanga Mayadunne, posted a photo of their family at the table and captioned it: “Easter breakfast with the family.”
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