​Australian family who frequently visit Sri Lanka ... victims of unfortunate fate!

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Australian family who frequently visit Sri Lanka ...

victims of unfortunate fate!

As a result of a sudden accident which took place along Southern Expressway at dawn around five yesterday, a mother and her daughter had lost their lives while the father and son sustained serious injuries and were admitted to hospital. ​Foreign media have released further information pertaining to the accident. The deceased are Colin Lewis (37) the mother
and Poppy Gabriel, her four year old daughter.

Though this family are Australian nationals; for a period of time had been living in Dohar Qatar. Patrick Colins, the father is attached to an affiliated airline service in Dohar. He was born in Melbourne, Australia while his wife Lewis who died was born in the town of Brisbane. The family has had a desire to tour Sri Lanka on and off and on this particular occasion they had chosen to tour the Southern province. This accident has in fact happened when they were on their way to a hotel in Tangalla which they had booked in advance. Thus early last morning they had arrived at Katunayaka airport from Dohar and had been travelling to this hotel.

A brother of injured Colin, James had told Courier Mail newspaper about the incident as follows: "An innocent family who were bonded in love. they often used to talk about Sri Lanka. Their habit is to go to Sri Lanka the moment they would get a holiday. They had said that it is a peaceful country and that they could spend a nice holiday without any problem. I can't even imagine that they will meet with an accident like this!"