It was supposed to be a family holiday - a photo, which one of the daughters put on the internet just a few days ago, testifies to that. Since the siblings sit side by side at the swimming pool and look at the water. The attacks in Sri Lanka have cruelly hit the Danish family Holch Povlsen: Three of Anders' four children and Anne Holch Povlsen died on Easter Sunday in the suicide bombings in Colombo.

Holch Povlsen is considered the richest man in Denmark. The 46-year-old is head of the bestseller group, which includes the fashion brand Jack & Jones, among others. "Unfortunately, we can confirm that," a bestselling spokesman told the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. "We ask you to respect the privacy of the family and therefore do not make any further comments."

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Sri Lanka: Suspected attack shakes island nation

The overwhelming majority of the almost 300 dead are from Sri Lanka. Among them are the cook Shantha Mayadunne, who was very prominent in the island state through television appearances and as a book author, and her daughter Nisanga.

The student had posted a photo just before the attack, which shows the family at the Easter breakfast in the Hotel Shangri-La in Colombo. In addition, three employees died in the hotel. The hotel management confirms "full of grief" in a Facebook entry the victims.

At the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, another target of the assassination, four employees were killed, the BBC reported. The attack, according to a hotel spokesman, occurred during the buffet on Sunday morning. At this time, the hotel was the most busy, the spokesman said. He gave the names of the victims among the servants with Shantha, Sanjeewani, Ibrahim and Nisthar.

According to the government, fatalities have included at least 32 foreigners: eight Britons, five Indians, two Chinese, three Danes, two Australians and an unspecified number of Japanese, Portuguese, Americans, Turks and Dutch.

The Guardian reported that Hotel Shangri-La also killed British lawyer Anita Nicholson and her eleven-year-old son Alex. The family, who live in Singapore, had wanted to spend the Easter days in Colombo. Father Ben Nicholson survived the attack accordingly injured; Annabel, the couple's younger daughter, has been missing since Sunday.