20 Indian soldiers killed in Ladakh border clash with China’s PLA

By The Dispatch Staff -June 16, 2020046

Jammu: Hours after the Indian Army said that a Colonel and two soldiers had died in Monday night’s violent faceoff, it confirmed 17 more have succumbed “who were critically injured in the line of duty at the stand off location and exposed to sub-zero temp in the high altitude terrain”

“Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged at the Galwan area where they had earlier clashed on the night of 15/16 June 2020. 17 Indian troops who were critically injured in the line of duty at the stand off location and exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the high altitude terrain have succumbed to their injuries, taking the total that were killed in action to 20 Indian Army is firmly committed to protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the nation,” the Army statement said.

“Given its responsible approach to border management, India is very clear that all its activities are always within the Indian side of the LAC. We expect the same of the Chinese side,” the MEA said in a statement. Meanwhile, Beijing urged India to “strictly restrain its frontline troops from crossing the border or taking any unilateral action that may complicate the border situation”.

The last deaths at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) were in 1975 when an Indian patrol was ambushed by Chinese soldiers in Arunachal Pradesh. A violent clash between the two sides on the border had taken place at Nathu La in 1967.(Courtesy The Dispatch)