Matt Linsey's face is peppered with minute scars from the shrapnel and debris that hit him, as he recalls the split-second decision he and his two children made to run, rather than hide, just after the first of two bombs went off.
"The bomb went off and they both were running toward me," he said."I knew there'd be another bomb because there always is with these things."His instinct was right, but it was as they fled that the second blast hit his children, Daniel and Amelie, detonating near the elevators on the third floor of the upmarket Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
David held Amelie's smartphone, a hole ripped through it by what must have been a ball bearing from the blast.A US fifth-grader was at breakfast when he was killed in the Sri Lanka bombingsAfter the second blast in the Shangri-La, Matt Linsey raced over to their injured bodies."They both were unconscious," he said."My daughter seemed to be moving. My son wasn't. A woman offered to take my daughter downstairs to the ambulance. I needed help moving my son.
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