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Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings: one year on from the terror that took my family Source:The Times UL Ben Nicholson, whose wife and children were killed in last year’s attacks, tells Shanti Das how he is coping with the ultimate loss Ben Nicholson was ordering pancakes from the breakfast buffet when the bomb killed his family. “A year ago today I had a wife and two children,” he says. “Anita and I had a life planned out together and we were watching our two children grow up, and enjoying it, and enjoying what we were doing. That all just stopped.” It was about 8.45am on April 21 last year — Easter Sunday — and he, Anita, 42, Alex, 14, and Annabel, 11, had enjoyed an “amazing” week-long holiday in Sri Lanka, seeing elephants and blue whales and messing around in the hotel pool. They had packed their cases ready to ...