D. M. Dassanayake
- January 8, 2008
- 54 years
- roadside bomb
About D. M. Dassanayake
D. M. Dassanayake, 54, Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building, roadside bomb.
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|Dassanayake Mudiyanselage Dassanayake (Sinhala: ද. මු. දසනායක, romanized: Da. Mu. Dasssanayake; 29 April 1953 – 8 January 2008) was a Sri Lankan politician from the Puttalam District. He was serving as a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and non-cabinet Minister of Nation Building when he was assassinated in a roadside bomb attack on 8 January 2008 in Ja-Ela, twelve miles north of Colombo. The attack, which was blamed on the militant Tamil Tigers organization, killed three people and injured ten others.
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