Pak shelling kills ADDC and two others in Rajouri: Report

CM expresses shock over officer’s death

STC NEWS DESK
JAMMU, MAY 10 (STC): A senior administrative officer and two other persons including a minor from Bihar were killed in Pakistan shelling in Rajouri district, officials said on Saturday.
Chief minister Omar Abdullah has expressed sadness and termed Kumar’s death as “terrible loss of life.”
According to the reports, residence of the Additional District Development Commissioner Raj Kumar Thappa was hit by Pakistan shell during intervening night of May 9 and 10. He was seriously injured and died before being admitted at GMC Rajouri.
Reports said two more bodies were recieved at the GMC Rajouri and they too had died due to Pakistan shelling. The duo are said to be residents of Bihar and one of them was 2-year-old boy. The other is said to 35-year-old man and both died after being hit by shelling in an Industrial area in the Rajouri district.
Meanwhile CM Omar Abdullah in a post on X said, “Devastating news from Rajouri. We have lost a dedicated officer of the J&K Administration Services. Just yesterday he was accompanying the Deputy CM around the district & attended the online meeting I chaired.” He added: “Today the residence of the officer was hit by Pak shelling as they targeted Rajouri town killing our Additional District Development Commissioner Sh Raj Kumar Thappa. I’ve no words to express my shock & sadness at this terrible loss of life. May his soul rest in peace”.(STC)