Cross-border shelling kills five civilians in Jamu and Kashmir

Locals stood on fragments of damaged structures after major shootings and shellings were held in Pakistan on May 10, 2025. |Photo source: PTI

In the ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan, Jamu and Kashmir were caught in a warlike situation hours before the ceasefire agreement on Saturday (May 10, 2025) as five civilians, including a senior official, were killed in a cross-border shelling by Pakistani forces.

First, locals reported that loud bangs are dozens of houses in the heart of many city centers, including the dual capitals of Srinagar and Jamu.

India-Pakistan ceasefire live: power outages in parts of Katu Asrinagar; official sources say no explosions in the last 30 minutes of Srinagar.

Officials said Pakistan intensified shelling in areas close to the Line of Control (LOC) early in the morning. In many structures, the house of the additional development commissioner Raj Kumar Thapa was hit by a long-range shell. Officials said Tapa was killed and two of his staff were injured. J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met the victim’s family. “Just yesterday, he accompanied the deputy CM (Chief Minister) of the region and attended an online meeting I chaired. We lost a dedicated official,” Abdullah said.

Locals say that the town of Rajuri has witnessed Pakistan’s shelling for the first time since the Kagir War in 1999. Two non-local, Aisha Noor, 2, and Mohammad Shohib, 35, also suffered schizophrenia and died after an explosion near an industrial area in Rajuri town.

The area adjacent to Rajouri, 55, of Rashida Bi, died after a shell exploded at a nearby kanghra-galhutta village in her Mendhar. Ashok Kumar, the fifth civilian victim from Bidipur Jatta village in RS Pora, was killed by Pakistani troops while firing on international borders.

“Security forces recovered a Turkish kamikaze drone in a village in LOC in the Rajuri region,” a government spokesman said.

After the middle and upper class colonies of Rehari, Janipur and Roop Nagar, several structures damaged by the projectile were also seen in J&K’s winter capital. “The city of Chamu has never seen such a scene. Even when the Kagir War broke out, Chamu had a normal life. This was the first time in my life memory, I saw houses and religious places damaged by projectiles in the air,” Tarun Kumar, who was a resident of Chamu.

Mr. Abdullah visited several areas in Jamu and conducted a first-hand assessment of the damages. “I visited the Rehari and Roopnagar areas to assess the damage caused by the recent shelling. The pain and interference faced by residents is worrying,” he said. Several vehicles were also damaged due to these projectiles.

In Srinagar, fear caught the city after more than four shocking loud bangs radiated through the sky. Unidentified projectiles were found from the Dal Lake and Rasyan areas, officials said.