Shangri-La Colombo is a 5-star hotel in Colombo,

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. Owned by Shangri-La Hotels, the property is part of the larger

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development project at the site of the Old Army Headquarters. It is the second Shangri-La hotel on the island (after Shangri-La's Hambantota Golf Resort & Spa) and the 101st hotel of the chain of Shangri-La Hotels world-wide. The hotel was opened on 11 November 2017. The property has 500 rooms, and has room to accommodate up to 2,000 conference guests.

2019 Easter Sunday bombings

The Shangri-La was one of three sites of the

2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS-related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, there were smaller expl ...

along with

the Kingsbury The Kingsbury, trading as The Kingsbury PLC, formerly the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo and the Ceylon Inter-Continental Hotel, is a nine-story hotel located at 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It was built ...

and

Cinnamon Grand Colombo The Cinnamon Grand Colombo, trading as Asian Hotels and Properties PLC and formerly called the Hotel Lanka Oberoi, is a luxury five-star hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Cinnamon Grand is located at 77 Galle Road, Kollupitiya, Colombo. Histor ...

. Sri Lankan celebrity chef

Shantha Mayadunne Shantha Mayadunne ( si, ශාන්තා මායාදුන්නේ; 4 April 1951 – 21 April 2019) was a Sri Lankan chef and television personality. Career She had thirty years of experience in the culinary arts and became one of the mo ...

and her daughter were among the fatalities. Sri Lankan

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was having breakfast in the hotel when the bombing took place. He escaped with only minor injuries. Three of the four children of Danish billionaire

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were killed in the attack.

References

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