Billionaire ASOS tycoon who is Scotland’s biggest landowner loses three of his four children in Sri Lanka Easter terror attacks that killed 290 people including eight Britons
Mailonline reports that Anders Holch Povlsen is the second largest private landowner in the UK and biggest shareholder in Asos
Has four children with wife Anne Storm, Alma, Astrid, Agnes and Alfred, but it is not known which have died
At least 290 people were killed and 500 wounded after eight explosions rocked hotels and churches
The blasts, mostly around Colombo, have killed at least 32 foreigners including Britons and Americans
Eight British nationals, and two holding dual UK-US nationality, are among the dead, Sri Lankan officials said
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.
Povlsen, 46, is married to Anne Storm Pedersen. The pair met when Anne began working in sales for Bestseller.
He is Denmark’s richest man, with his father passing down ownership of the international clothes retailer chain Bestseller when he was just 28 years old.
Seven suicide bombers killed at least 290 people in coordinated attacks on five-star hotels and churches on Easter Sunday.
Manisha Gunasekera, the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK, has said eight British nationals were killed in the attacks.
No group has claimed responsibility but cabinet spokesman Rajitha Senaratne has said the attacks were carried out with the help of an international network.
He said: ‘We do not believe these attacks were carried out by a group of people who were confined to this country. There was an international network without which these attacks could not have succeeded.’
Sri Lankan police previously pointed towards Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), who were the subject of an intelligence warning ten days before the attacks, as being responsible.