
India has been facing its toughest military challenge in nearly six decades after 20 Indian soldiers were reported killed by Chinese troops in a border clash.
The soldiers were beaten to death with “sticks, fists, rocks and wooden clubs” during a confrontation in the Himalayan region of eastern Ladakh, Indian sources said. In keeping with a 1996 bilateral border agreement between India and China, soldiers are forbidden from firing weapons in the area where the clash occurred.
Chinese troops carried out a “premeditated and planned action that was directly responsible for the resulting violence and casualties”, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on June 17.
“Based on what I know, Chinese side also suffered casualties,” tweeted the editor-in-chief of the Chinese newspaper Global Times, a Communist Party mouthpiece.
“Indian intercepts reveal that Chinese side suffered 43 casualties including dead and seriously injured in the violent face-off,” New Delhi-based Hindustan Times newspaper reported that military sources had said..
Beijing, so far, has not confirmed these figures.
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