Jammu, May 11 -- A Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS) officer, who lost his life in Pakistani shelling, was cremated with full state honours here on Sunday, officials said.

Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary and J&K Assembly Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma joined hundreds of mourners at the cremation ground to bid final goodbye to Rajouri Additional District Development Commissioner Raj Kumar Thapa.

Thapa was killed when a mortar shell landed in his residential compound in Rajouri town early Saturday. His mortal remains were brought to his Roop Nagar residence in the outskirts of Jammu city in a police vehicle, and later his body was cremated in a nearby cremation ground.

Lt Governor Manoj Sinha also visited the be...