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COLOMBO • As April 21 approaches, Mr Xavier Christiraj, 60, has been feeling his chest tighten.
Three years ago that day, his son Johnne Clinton Christiraj, 27, was killed with 57 others in an explosion during Easter mass at St Anthony's Shrine in the Kochchikade neighbourhood of Colombo.
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