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Deep wounds in Sri Lanka five years since Easter massacres / 34PN8U3
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Sri Lanka marks on Sunday five years since Islamist bombers slaughtered 279 people in the island's deadliest suicide attack, but grieving families say they are still waiting for justice.
Government employee Saman Sirimanna, 59, and his wife Sriyani, 57, lost their two children when a suicide bomber stormed into St. Anthony's church in the capital Colombo on Easter Day 2019.
It was part of a wave of attacks that included three luxury hotels and two other churches in the majority Buddhist nation.
Sirimanna said his 19-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter had gone to "seek blessings" for good exam results.
"My loss is irreplaceable", Sirimanna told AFP, with tears in his eyes. "My children will never return." IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES