NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) – An Indian officer and two soldiers were eliminated in a “violent faceoff” with Chinese troops on the contested border, the Indian Army stated on Tuesday, reporting the first casualties in decades to result from a clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
FILE PICTURE: A man walks inside a meeting room used for meetings in between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, November 11,2009 REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
India and China have actually been locked in a standoff in the Galwan valley in western Mountain range for weeks with both accusing each other of trespassing into the other’s area.
The Indian army said there had been an event on Monday and both sides had suffered casualties.
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