Senior officer Kalyan Singh, wife killed in road accident in J&K’s Doda district

Jammu :  On Friday a senior officer of the Jammu and Kashmir government and his wife were killed in a road accident in Doda district of Jammu region.

A senior police officer told IANS that “Kalyan Singh, additional secretary in the roads and buildings department, and his wife were killed on-the-spot in an accident at Khilani on the Batote-Doda road”.

The accident occurred when the car the couple was travelling in went off the road and plunged into a gorge, when the three of them persons injured in the accident were admitted in a hospital.

The Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service officer was on way to his native place for the cremation of his father who expired on Thursday.