A top explosives and ballistics expert and Defence Advisor Dr. D.A.I.Munindradasa passed away in Israel yesterday following an attack of pneumonia while participating in an official mission to procure arms and ammuntion .A senior Defence Ministry official said 41-year-old Dr. Munindradasa, a Senior Lecturer of the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering of the Moratuwa University was a member of Sri Lanka Defence delegation to Tel Aviv to inspect some weapons and to attend a workshop there.

Born in 1966, Dr. Munindradasa was a holder of B.Sc,Eng.(Moratuwa),Ph.D(Liverpool) and expert of Semiconductor Material, Wildlife related electronics, Mechatronics, Automotive electronics, Acoustics. He had been with the defence ministry since 1990 and during President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s regime he repaired some Multi-Barrel Rocket Launchers (MBRL), which were indiscriminately used against minority Tamil in North and East of Sri Lanka.