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Missing Danes found alive after Sri Lanka hotel blast
Crime scene officials inspect the explosion area at Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka April 21, 2019. u00e2u20acu201d Reuters picn

COPENHAGEN, April 24 — A Danish family has established contact with two relatives who went missing after the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, Ritzau news agency said today, citing Denmark’s foreign ministry.

Denmark’s ambassador to India said earlier today that relatives and authorities had been trying unsuccessfully since Sunday to establish contact with the two Danish citizens, who had checked into a hotel in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo.

However, they were at a hotel that was not affected by the blasts and are both unharmed, the ministry said after speaking to their relatives.

Three Danes are already confirmed dead in the blasts, which killed 359 people and wounded about 500 more at churches and hotels. Denmark’s richest man Anders Holch Povlsen and his wife lost three of their four children in the attacks, a spokesman for Povlsen’s fashion firm said on Monday. — Reuters

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