Two fathers who saw their British children killed in the Sri Lankan terror attacks embraced as they searched for their families in the bloody aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings.
Matthew Linsey told yesterday how he met Ben Nicholson as they searched for their children in a hospital.
Mr Linsey, 61, told the Mail: 'We hugged and tried to support each other. We helped each other.'
It comes as British IT director Lorraine Campbell, 55, from Manchester, was feared dead last night.
Sri Lanka bombings: From left to right Daniel and Amelie who died in the second blast, with father Matthew, older brother David and mother Angeline - at the Borobudur Indonesia Temple
Mr Nicholson (pictured with his family) has revealed his family were dining inside the Table One restaurant in the Shangri-La hotel, Colombo, when the bomb hit and 'mercifully died instantly and with no pain or suffering'
Hours earlier they had been strangers having breakfast in the Table One restaurant at the Shangri-La Hotel in the capital Colombo with their families when it was bombed.
In the first blast, Mr Nicholson's wife Anita, 42, his son Alex, 14 and daughter Annabel, 11, were all killed instantly.
Investment manager Mr Linsey and his children Daniel, 19, and Amelie, 15, tried to flee, but the teenagers died in a second blast designed to target survivors and any rescuers rushing to their aid.
In a TV interview yesterday, Mr Linsey described his last minutes with his children.
Speaking to CNN in his London garden as eldest son David, 21, held him, Mr Linsey said the bomb was like a 'wave of pressure', and told how his children were serving his breakfast when the bomb exploded.
Matthew Linsey speaks to CNN about the bomb attacks in Sri Lanka in which his son Daniel and daughter Amelie were killed
He added: 'My children were so nice – they actually went down to the buffet and filled up my plate.
'Then I wanted more to drink. I was going to get it, my daughter said, 'No, I'll get it' – and then the bomb went off and they both were running toward me, and I'm not sure whether that's what killed them or not.
'I knew there'd be another bomb because there always is.'
He said he wanted to escape as fast as possible with his children but the three of them fled straight into the second blast, adding: 'Maybe I should have just stayed and covered them with my body.'
He revealed how he tried to revive Daniel, a student at Westminster Kingsway College, before helping to carry him to an ambulance.
Mr Linsey said: 'They both were unconscious. 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.
'Someone helped me move him down the stairs and they both ended up in the same hospital.'
He added: 'I lost track of my daughter in the confusion.
British lawyer Mr Nicholson with his wife Anita (left) and children Alex and Annabel (right), who were killed 'instantly' in the Sri Lanka terror attack on Easter Sunday
'I went with my son. I yelled and screamed for them to help him. The doctors did try, but the equipment was rudimentary.'
He later found Amelie – a pupil at the Godolphin & Latymer School in Hammersmith, west London – dead in the hospital. It was there that he met Mr Nicholson looking for Alex.
Mr Linsey, who has returned home to central London to be with his wife and other two sons, who were not on the holiday, said he was still in touch with Mr Nicholson, adding: 'He is a lovely man. I spoke to him today. He is still there trying to organise the repatriation of his family.'
Mr Nicholson, 43, a lawyer from Essex who lives in Singapore, has told how his 'perfect' family 'mercifully died instantly' with 'no pain'.
Mr Linsey also described the distressing wait to have his children's remains returned to him.
The father of four added: 'I had to send photos of my two children to a doctor in Sri Lanka so he can identify them. I wish they could speed up the repatriation of the bodies.'
Amelie and Daniel were born in Britain but had both US and UK citizenship because their father was born in America. However, Mr Linsey said he felt let down by the support provided by the British Embassy, adding: 'I'm an American citizen and my children have dual passports. I did ask to see someone from
