What they left behind: Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombing victims

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What they left behind: Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombing victims by dansiddiqui

An entire family, including three children, died in an explosion at St Anthony’s Church on Easter Sunday, one of a series of coordinated attacks by suicide bombers that killed more than 250 people.A church which was regularly visited by Berlington Joseph Gomez and his family including his wife Chandrika Arumugam, 31, and their sons Bevon, Clavon, and 11-month-old Avon.Bevon, 9, and Clavon, 6, also died in the April 21 blast."I love my cousins.

They left behind treasured possessions those that loved them cannot bear to move, as well as the empty spaces where they lived, worked and played.A sewing machine belonging to Kritika is seen inside her house. She was killed and his son is battling for his life in intensive care. Since that day, Kritika's sewing machine has sat in the family’s living room, a spool of thread loaded, awaiting her return.Statues of Mary and Jesus are seen inside the house of Lahiru Prasanga Fernando, 34, and his wife Diliini Sangeewani, 34. The couple were killed during Easter Sunday bombings at St. Sebastian Church.

Weeks after the attack, the school bag of her younger daughter, Wishmi, 14, lies on her bedspread. Moving anything would mean coming to terms with the fact she isn’t coming back.

 

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