{"id":87554,"date":"2019-04-24T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87554"},"modified":"2019-04-24T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:55:33","slug":"first-pictures-of-middle-class-suicide-bomber-brothers-who-calmly-walked-into-sri-lankas-five-star-hotels-and-murdered-innocents-having-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/24\/first-pictures-of-middle-class-suicide-bomber-brothers-who-calmly-walked-into-sri-lankas-five-star-hotels-and-murdered-innocents-having-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"First pictures of &#8216;middle class&#8217; suicide bomber brothers who calmly walked into Sri Lanka&#8217;s five star hotels and murdered innocents having breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Mail OnLine<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Wealthy brothers Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim bombed the luxury Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Easter Sunday terror attack<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Suicide bomber brothers were the sons of a millionaire spice trader and were privately educated in Colombo<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Their attacks claimed the lives of at least 41 foreigners, including eight British holidaymakers &#8211; three of whom were children<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>As police raided their \u00a31m mansion in an exclusive neighbourhood of Colombo, Ilham&#8217;s pregnant wife Fatima blew herself up, killing her three children and three officers<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Inshaf, a successful businessman, owned a copper factory thought to be where the suicide bombs were made&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>At least 321 people were murdered in the massacre, 45 of them children, while more than 500 were injured<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Chilling footage shows Ilham and an accomplice bomber attack the Shangri-La while guests had breakfast&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Second clip earlier showed different bomber patting a girl on the head before launching attack on a church&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>ISIS has claimed responsibility and released footage of the fighters swearing allegiance to the jihadist group<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the first pictures of the suicide bomber brothers who butchered eight Britons when they blew themselves up in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wealthy brothers Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim calmly walked into the luxury Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels and detonated their vests as guests were eating breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their attacks claimed the lives of at least 41 foreigners, including eight British holidaymakers &#8211; three of whom were children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours later, as police raided their mansion in an exclusive neighbourhood of Colombo, Ilham&#8217;s pregnant wife Fatima blew herself up, killing her three children and three officers.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/24\/16\/12661120-6955605-Inshaf_Ibrahim_pictured_was_on_of_the_Sri_Lanka_suicide_bombers_-a-28_1556119112044.jpg\" alt=\"Inshaf\u00a0Ibrahim (pictured) was on of the Sri Lanka suicide bombers who attacked the luxury Cinnamon Grand Hotel on Easter Sunday\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/24\/16\/12661104-6955605-His_brother_Ilham_Ibrahim_pictured_detonated_his_suicide_vest_at-m-27_1556119107275.jpg\" alt=\"His brother Ilham Ibrahim (pictured) detonated his suicide vest at the Shangri-La Hotel as guests ate their breakfast\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Suicide bomber brothers Inshaf Ibrahim (left) and Ilham Ibrahim (right) calmly walked into the luxury Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels on Easter Sunday morning and detonated their vests, killing guests having their breakfast<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/24\/17\/12668474-6955605-image-m-34_1556123855852.jpg\" alt=\"Inshaf (pictured far right at a business awards), 38, lived with his wife and their four children - an eight-year-old daughter and three boys aged six, four and two - in a \u00a31.5million six-bed mansion on one of the most exclusive streets in Colombo\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inshaf (pictured far right at a business awards), 38, lived with his wife and their four children &#8211; an eight-year-old daughter and three boys aged six, four and two &#8211; in a \u00a31.5million six-bed mansion on one of the most exclusive streets in Colombo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/23\/15\/12617536-6950223-image-a-1_1556029955984.jpg\" alt=\"The wealthy brothers - sons of a millionaire spice trader - are two of nine jihadis who carried out the devastating bomb attacks in Sri Lanka. They are believed to be pictured here alongside National Thawheed Jamaath leader Moulvi Zahran Hashim\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The wealthy brothers &#8211; sons of a millionaire spice trader &#8211; are two of nine jihadis who carried out the devastating bomb attacks in Sri Lanka. They are believed to be pictured here alongside National Thawheed Jamaath leader Moulvi Zahran Hashim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/23\/21\/12631416-6950223-image-a-50_1556051471291.jpg\" alt=\"Ilham, whose wife Fatima blew herself up when police raided their mansion in an exclusive part of Colombo, is pictured alongside an accomplice bomber entering the second-floor restaurant at the Shangri-La hotel before the deadly attack\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ilham, whose wife Fatima blew herself up when police raided their mansion in an exclusive part of Colombo, is pictured alongside an accomplice bomber entering the second-floor restaurant at the Shangri-La hotel before the deadly attack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It comes as CCTV footage has revealed the moment one of the bomber brothers, Inshaf,&nbsp; nervously shuffling back and forth before deciding to blow himself up at the Cinnamon Grand hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage from a camera in the hotel&#8217;s packed Taprobane restaurant shows the bomber hovering just inches away from diners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wearing a light shirt, dark baseball cap and a large backpack, the attacker hesitates &#8211; shuffling from foot to foot before detonating his suicide vest at 9.12am.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inshaf had reportedly checked into the hotel the previous night using a fake name and claiming to be on a business trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, footage revealed that his brother Ilham and an accomplice bomber took a lift to the restaurant of the five-star Shangri-La hotel before blowing themselves up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wearing backpacks, the two men appear to discuss their plans in the elevator on the second floor in the final moments before the Easter Sunday massacre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bombers then enter the Table One eatery almost unnoticed while hotel guests are having breakfast before he detonates his deadly weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6955605\/First-pictures-Sri-Lankas-middle-class-suicide-bomber-brothers-murdered-innocents.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6955605\/First-pictures-Sri-Lankas-middle-class-suicide-bomber-brothers-murdered-innocents.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Mail OnLine Wealthy brothers Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim bombed the luxury Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels in Sri Lanka&#8217;s Easter Sunday terror attack Suicide bomber brothers were the sons of a millionaire spice trader and were privately educated in Colombo Their attacks claimed the lives of at least 41 foreigners, including eight British holidaymakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}