Pictures of two of the nine suicide bombers who set off a series of bombs in Sri Lanka on April 21, Easter Sunday, have emerged, and they were identified as brothers.
In the pictures, Inshaf is wearing a suit while Ilham is in a polo shirt.
Inshaf was alleged to have bombed the Shangri-La Hotel while his brother walked into the Cinnamon Grand Colombo before detonating their vests.
According to a manager at the hotel, Ilham stood in the buffet line at the Cinnamon Grand before setting off the blast.
Those explosions and others triggered in and around Colombo, including at multiple churches, left 329 people dead and some 500 others injured.
Inshaf, 38, lived with his wife and their four children in a $1.9 million, six-bedroom house in Sri Lanka's capital, according to the Mail. The house was owned by his brother-in-law, Ashkhan Alawdeen, a jewelry trader, who told the Mail: "My brother-in-law is a psychopath. He deserves to be punished in hell. He lived under my own roof. He seemed so normal."
"He had everything—a good business, a lovely wife and a four adorable children. Why would he do something like this?" Alawdeen added.
Inshaf owned Colossus Copper, a manufacturing facility, where the suicide vests may have been made. He was described by family members and employees as calm and a devout Muslim.
Ilham's wife, Fatima Ibrahim, blew herself up when police raided his house.
She was believed to have been present when a group of masked men swore allegiance to ISIS, the radical Islamic terror group, seen in video footage released by the terrorists. She was on the right side of the frame standing behind her husband, the sources said.
The Ibrahim brothers are children of Mohammed Yusif Ibrahim, a millionaire spice trader. He was arrested after the bombings.
Fathima Fazla, a housewife who lives near the family, said that the family "seemed like good people."
“He was famous in the area for helping the poor with food and money. It’s unthinkable his children could have done that,” Fazla told Reuters of the elder Ibrahim. “Because of what they have done, all Muslims are treated as suspects.”
A source close to the family told Reuters that Ilham openly espoused extremist Muslim ideology and went to meetings of National Thowheed Jamath, the local Islamist group authorities have named as behind the attack.
Inshaf was thought to be more moderate in his views, at least to outsiders, and was known to be generous to his staff and others.