Sri Lankan police were on Friday continuing their investigations outside the expensive home of two of the Easter Sunday attackers.

Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim - sons of a spice tycoon who spoke fluent English - lived in one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods of the Colombo, Dermatagoda.

On Easter Sunday, the brothers were part of the group of suicide bombers who killed more than 250 people.

When police and soldiers in Sri Lanka set out on the trail of the attackers who killed more than 250 people in a series of bombings on Easter Sunday, they did not expect to find themselves in Dematagoda, one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Colombo.Within 90 minutes of the attack, as hospitals struggled to cope with the huge number of casualties, the security forces were closing in on a three-storey house with a BMW parked outside.Two brothers who lived at the white house on Mahawela Gardens have emerged as key players in suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed more than 250 people and stunned an island state that had enjoyed a decade of relative peace.
Two brothers lived there with their families: 38-year-old Inshaf Ibrahim, a copper factory owner, and Ilham, 36. Their father, Mohamed Yusuf Ibrahim, one of the most successful businesspeople in the island nation’s Muslim community, made a fortune exporting spices. The two brothers were also involved in the jewellery trade. They were both among the attackers.
When police moved in, there was another blast. It is unclear whether the top floors were wired with explosives or if the elder brother’s wife, Fatima, had set them off. The couple’s three children were instantly killed.