D. M. Dassanayake

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Dassanayake Mudiyanselage Dassanayake ({{langx|si|ද. මු. දසනායක|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.news.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4522&Itemid=44 |title=D.M. Dassanayake assassination: Government condemns despicable act of terrorism by LTTE |date=8 January 2008 |website=Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka |access-date=14 January 2019 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214074157/http://www.news.lk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4522&Itemid=44 |archive-date=14 February 2008}}{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/international/story/0,,2237138,00.html |title=Sri Lankan minister killed by bomb |last=Orr |first=James |date=8 January 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=14 January 2019}}