Billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, [photo], the fashion tycoon behind online clothing retailer Asos, was with his family on vacation in Sri Lanka when suicide bombers struck, killing at least 290 people on Sunday

After the blasts ripped through landmarks around the capital Colombo, and on Sri Lanka’s east coast, targeting Christians, hotel guests and foreign tourists yesterday.
290 people were killed and more than 500 people were wounded.
The government  f Sri Lanka has attributed the terror attack to
the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), a relatively unknown radical Islamist group said to have formed in Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated town in eastern Sri Lanka, in 2014.
Prior to Sunday’s attack, it has no history of mass fatality attacks. Before yesterday’s bombings, their main claim to fame was being linked to vandalising of Buddhist statues.
By Monday morning it was revealed that billionaire ASOS owner Anders Holch Povlsen lost three of his four children in the Sri Lanka terror attacks on Easter Sunday
A spokesman for Povlsen, Denmark’s richest man who also owns a huge estate in Scotland, confirmed the deaths but did not say which of his four children had been killed.
The billionaire had been on holiday with his family for the Easter holidays but he, his partner, and one of his children survived.
Just days before the devastating attacks, one of Povlsen’s children, Alma, shared a holiday snap of her siblings Astrid, Agnes and Alfred, next to a pool.

Just days before the devastating attacks, one of Povlsen’s children, Alma, shared a snap of her three siblings Astrid, Agnes and Alfred, next to a pool.

I can confirm that three children have been killed. We have no further comment and we ask that the family’s privacy is respected at this time,” Jesper Stubkier, communications manager for Holch Povlsen’s wholesale clothing business, Bestseller, told the Press Association.
As well as Denmark’s richest man, Povlsen is believed to be the largest landowner in Scotland after buying a string of historic estates.
He and his wife, Anne Storm Pedersen, hold an estimated 200,000 acres of the Highlands, and plan to ‘rewild’ the landscape to preserve it for future generations, according to the Guardian.
Povlsen previously revealed he planned to leave his estate to his children so they could continue his 200-year vision for ‘rewilding’ the land long after he was gone.
Sri Lankan officials said Monday that the death toll had reached 290 and the number of injured also rose to more than 500.
Sri Lankan officials said a total of 24 suspects had been arrested, and are blaming a local terror group, National Thowfeek Jamaath.
US Secretary of State Pompeo said Sunday that “several US citizens” were among those killed.
Blaming the  little-known Islamist group called National Thowheed Jamaath [NTJ], for the terrorist attacks, Sri Lankan officials said that the organisation had ‘international help’, raising fears that ISIS was involved.
Islamist extremist material has been recovered from a hotel room allegedly used by the suspects in the Sri Lanka hotel bombings.

Sri Lankan security forces approach the site after a vehicle parked near St. Anthony’s shrine exploded.

The seven bombers authorities said coordinated their attacks targeting five-star hotels and churches on Easter Sunday in an apparent deliberate attempt to target westerners and Christians.
In total 39 foreigners have been confirmed dead including four Americans,  two joint UK-US nationals and a number of Dutch, Turkish, Australian and Portuguese citizens.
Also among the confirmed dead were tourists having breakfast at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo when two suicide bombers walked in and blew themselves up.
At 10.10am local time Sunday April 21,  witnesses report that two churches in Sri Lanka were  hit by explosions as worshippers gathered on Easter Sunday.
The historic St Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo and St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo are among those reported to have been hit.Later updated to reveal that there had been six closely-timed attacks at three churches and three hotels and that suicide bombers may have been involved in at least two of the blasts.
Casualties initially were put at 129 people dead and more than 500 have been taken to hospital after blasts at the  six sites, according to a Sri Lanka state-run newspaper.

Huge family grief: Anders Povlsen, [right] met his wife Anne Storm Pedersen, [left], met when Anne began working in sales for Bestseller. The couple shared four children

British citizens Anita Nicholson, [right], and her eleven-year-old son Alex [left], was killed as they ate breakfast in the Shangri La in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

Povlsen, 46, is married to Anne Storm Pedersen. The pair met when Anne began working in sales for Bestseller.
The pair have 11 Scottish estates, and a castle, covering an astonishing 221,000 acres. He is Britain’s biggest private landowner, surpassing the Dukes of Atholl with 144,000 acres and the Prince of Wales, who owns 130,000 acres.
He began building this ever-growing property portfolio 12 years ago, in the autumn of 2006. In the vision, Povlsen said he planned to pass the estate along to his four children and that they would continue his work.
His father, Troels, began his fashion empire with a single store in 1975. Povlsen now employs 15,000 people and owns brands such as Jack & Jones and Vero Moda, along with almost 30 per cent of ASOS.
Its success has helped him build a fortune estimated at £5.4 billion.
Povlsen and his wife live at Constantinsborg, a neo-classical former royal palace near Aarhus. The couple send their four children to state schools.
In a statement, Bestseller’s spokesperson Jesper Stubkier said: ‘I can confirm that three children have been killed.
‘We have no further comment and we ask that the family’s privacy is respected at this time.’