At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in clashes with Chinese troops in the Himalayas, a sharp escalation of the long-running border dispute between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
India’s army on Tuesday said the deaths followed a “violent face-off” in the strategically important Galwan Valley. Having earlier said three soldiers had been killed, the army later confirmed that a further 17 troops had died after being “critically injured in the line of duty and exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the high-altitude terrain”.
India’s government blamed Chinese troops for failing to “respect the line of actual control” in the valley.
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