NEW DELHI / SRINAGAR (Reuters) – The Indian army said Tuesday that 20 of its infantrymen were killed in clashes with the Chinese troop station at a disputed border site, on a week-long primary escalation between the 2 Asian giants in the western Himalayas. .
China’s outer Minischeck showed that there was a “violent physical confrontation” at the border on Monday. He did not mention the victims, but the Indian Foreign Ministry said there were casualties on both sides.
An Indian government said the trooplaystation had fought with iron bars and stones and had not been fired.
The deaths are the first because the last primary border clash in 1967 between nuclear-weapon neighbors, including the world’s two most populous countries, that have been unable to resolve the dispute along its long border.
China and India replaced accusations about who was to blame for Monday’s clashes in the snowy deserts of Ladakh, which came after army commanders held meetings on the situation.
Since the birth of May, many infantrymen have clashed in 3 places, and one of two aspects is handover.
On Monday night, a collection of infantrymen arrived in the Galwan Valley, the Indian army said in a statement, adding that the two parties had been disconnected.
The two sides had stubborn tactics to defuse it, but at one point, an Indian government source said, China’s People’s Liberation Army had attacked Indian infantry soldiers adding an officer.
“They attacked with iron bars, the commander was seriously wounded and fell, and when that happened, other infantrymen invaded the deception and attacked with stones,” said the source, who was dissatisfied with the matter.
The Chinese aspect brought reinforcements and the fight lasted more than an hour, the source said.
“Both sides suffered losses that could also have been avoided if the agreement at the maximum logical point were followed scrupulously through the Chinese side,” The spokesman for India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anurag Srivastava, said in a statement.
A spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry said there was a serious red consensus across the two countries.
“What is surprising is that on June 1, the Indian aspect seriously violated our consensus and crossed the border twice and provoked and attacked Chinese forces, causing a violent physical confrontation between the two border forces,” Zhao Lijian told journalists in Beijing.
India and China welded a temporary but bloody border war in 1962 and are wrong as true with their instinctively larger friend who has caused an outbreak season ever since.
Border guards had skirmishes and fights when patrols clashed, however, there have been no deaths due to border clashes since 1967.
“This is incredibly, incredibly serious, vitiated by the ongoing dialogue,” said former Indian Army commander D. S. Hooda.
Military experts say the reasons for this confrontation are that India has built classified advertisements and airfields to reduce connectivity and reduce distance from China’s impressive infrastructure.
In Galwan, India he finished a road leading to an air box last October. China has asked India for all the construction.
India indicates that it operates on its effective line of control, the de facto border.
Additional reporting by Chris Thomas in Bengaluru, Meg Shen in Hong Kong and Colin Qian in Beijing; Additional reporting and writing by Sanjeev Miglani, Editing by Robert Birsel, Simon Cameron-Moore and Gareth Jones
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