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Father left to pick up the pieces after entire family killed in mass stabbing

A 19-year-old international student who was staying with the family is charged with the killings
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Flowers sit at the scene of a homicide where six people were found dead in the Barrhaven suburb of Ottawa on March 7, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Dhanushka Wickramasinghe thought his days of living alone in Ottawa were behind him.

His home in the suburb of Barrhaven would be quiet when he got back from work a bit shy of 11 p.m., but the happy tumult of a house full of kids would surely resume in the morning.

It wasn’t always this way: Wickramasinghe had spent several lonely years alone in Canada, working to establish himself, his family still back home in Sri Lanka.

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