COLOMBO BLASTS Sheikh Selim’s grandson killed, son-in-law injured

Awami League presidium member and former health minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson was killed and son-in-law injured in the terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Sri Lankan capital Colombo.
The deceased, Zayan Chowdhury, 9, was the son of Moshiul Haque Chowdhury, son-in-law of Sheikh Selim, who is the paternal cousin of prime minister Sheikh Hasina. 
Zayan was a student of Sunbeams School in Dhaka. 
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina first disclosed the sad news at a discussion in Brunei on Sunday, where she is on a state visit, that Sheikh Selim’s daughter’s family had fallen victim to the targeted blasts in Colombo which left his son-in-law injured while his grandson went missing. 
The child victim’s father was injured in the same blast, which was one of many that rocked Colombo on Easter Sunday, in which about 290 people died and over 500 were injured, according to Bangladesh government officials.
Injured Moshiul Chowdhury is now undergoing treatment in a Colombo hospital.
The incident took place when the father and son were taking breakfast at a hotel which was also a target of the bomb attacks. 
Moshiul’s family was in Colombo on a vacation. His spouse Sheikh Amena Sultana Sonia and another minor boy remained unhurt in the incident. 
‘We are in contact with the Bangladesh High Commission in Colombo to ensure transfer of the body of the blast victim,’ foreign ministry director general for consular services Chiranjib Sarker told New Age.
AL spokesperson Mahbubul Alam Hanif said that Zayan’s body would be brought home on Wednesday. 
Several ministers, including home minister Asaduzzaman, and Awami League leaders visited Selim’s residence in Banani in Dhaka to express their condolences. 
The death toll of the Sunday terror attacks has risen to 290 by Monday morning with 500 were injured, Sri Lankan Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said, according to Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina and foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, in separate messages to their Lankan counterparts on Sunday, expressed their condolences for the loss of lives in multiple and simultaneous explosions at several churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. 
Sri Lankan authorities declared a state of emergency from midnight Monday following the deadly Easter attacks, the Lankan president’s office said in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.
Special measures were introduced ‘to allow the police and the three forces to ensure public security,’ the statement said, referring to the army, navy and air force.
 

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