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Amyjo
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Date: April 23, 2019 09:58AM
At least 44 children were killed in the bombing.
This is just one of their heartbreaking stories. It is so tragic the lost potential in even one of these young lives.
"A fifth-grade student from Washington, D.C., was among the victims of the deadly Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 321 people and injured 375 others.
Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa, who would have turned 12 in August, was on a leave of absence from Sidwell Friends School to study and live in Sri Lanka, where his mother is originally from."
He wanted to become a neuroscientist who finds a cure for Alzheimer's. His father believed he would have, had he lived.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/5th-grader-prestigious-washington-d-c-school-among-victims-sri-n997291