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Two Sri Lanka bombers were sons of Colombo spice tycoon, sources say
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Television chef Shantha Mayadunne and her daughter Nisanga Mayadunne were killed in the explosion at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo on Sunday according to two immediate family members.

A TV chef, business travelers, families eating breakfast. What we know about the Sri Lanka attack victims

TOPSHOT - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks past honour guards during a welcoming ceremony upon arrival at the railway station in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 24, 2019. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP) (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images)

Kim Jong Un arrives in Vladivostok ahead of first meeting with Putin

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un upon arrival at the railway station in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 24, 2019.

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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - APRIL 23: Sri Lankan security personal on high alert on April 23, 2019 evening in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At least 321 people were killed with hundreds more injured after coordinated attack on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in and around Colombo as well as at Batticaloa in Sri Lanka. Based on reports, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks while investigations have shown that the attack was carried out in retaliation for Christchurch mosque shootings last month. Police have detained 40 suspects so far in connection with the suicide bombs, which injured at least 500 people as the blasts took place at churches in Colombo city as well as neighboring towns and hotels, including the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)

Live updates: Sri Lanka investigates Easter bombings

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - APRIL 23: Sri Lankan security personal on high alert on April 23, 2019 evening in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At least 321 people were killed with hundreds more injured after coordinated attack on churches and hotels on Easter Sunday rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in and around Colombo as well as at Batticaloa in Sri Lanka. Based on reports, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks while investigations have shown that the attack was carried out in retaliation for Christchurch mosque shootings last month. Police have detained 40 suspects so far in connection with the suicide bombs, which injured at least 500 people as the blasts took place at churches in Colombo city as well as neighboring towns and hotels, including the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)

Sri Lanka investigates Easter bombings

Baptist minister Chu Yiu-ming, right, law professor Benny Tai, left, and sociology professor Chan Kin-man, center, react as they enter the West Kowloon Magistrates Court in Hong Kong on April 9, 2019, to find out if they face jail for their involvement in the 2014 Umbrella Movement protests.

Leaders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement jailed for 16 months

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks on the second day of the APEC CEO Summit in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang on November 9, 2017.

Duterte threatens 'war' against Canada over trash shipped to Philippines

Sri Lankan priests look at the debris of a car after it explodes when police tried to defuse a bomb near St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. - The death toll from bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka rose dramatically April 22 to 290 -- including dozens of foreigners -- as police announced new arrests over the country's worst attacks for more than a decade. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Sri Lanka mourns as investigation into deadly blasts continues

The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force maintainers pose for a photo Nov. 28 during the arrival of the first Japanese F-35A at Luke Air Force Base Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Louis Vega Jr.)

Search effort closing in on missing Japanese stealth fighter

Rescue workers search for survivors in a collapsed Chuzon Supermarket in Porac, Pampanga, after a powerful earthquake hit northern Philippines on April 22, 2019.

Death toll rises to 16 after 6.1-magnitude earthquake in Philippines

This aerial photo taken on April 23, 2019 shows search and rescue personnel looking for miners at a jade mine following a landslide in Hpakant, Kachin state. - More than 50 people were feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said on April 23, the latest deadly accident in a notoriously dangerous industry. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

More than 50 jade mine workers trapped by 'mud lake'

On Tuesday, a video released by ISIS showed 8 men purported to be the Sri Lankan attackers pledging allegiance to the terror group. All of the men have their hands placed together and are masked, except one. That man, identified as Zahran Hashim, is leading them, reads the caption by ISIS Amaq news agency.
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ISIS suspect gave advance warning of Sri Lanka bombings, source says

Police have named Journalist Lyra McKee as the 29-year-old woman shot dead during a protest in the Creggan area of Derry.

57-year-old woman released after being questioned over Northern Ireland journalist's death

Workers continue rescue operations on people still trapped inside a collapsed building at Porac town, Pampanga province, northern Philippines following the earthquake on Monday.

Philippines 6.1-magnitude earthquake leaves 11 dead, 30 feared trapped

Myanmar journalist Wa Lone, center, is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon on September 3, 2018.

Myanmar court rejects final appeal from jailed Reuters journalists

TOPSHOT - Security personnel inspect the interior of St Sebastian's Church in Negombo on April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. - At least 290 are now known to have died in a series of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka, in the worst violence to hit the island since its devastating civil war ended a decade ago. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Could the Sri Lanka bombings have been stopped?

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