'Indian and Chinese troops have disengaged at the Galwan area where they had earlier clashed on the night of 15/16 June 2020,' Col. Aman Anand, spokesperson for the Indian army, told ABC News. 'Seventeen Indian troops who were critically injured in the line of duty at the stand off location
Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed on the border overnight, leaving 20 Indian soldiers dead and marking the first casualties in a conflict between the two powers in decades.
The skirmishes overnight marked an escalation in the growing conflict between China and India over the past few weeks. India and China went to war over disputed territory at the Himalayan border in 1962, but the announcement from the Indian army marks the first deaths registered in the conflict in at least 40 years.While the reasons for the dispute are historic in origin, the recent turn of events can be attributed in part to India's growing strategic partnership with the United States at the expense of Chinese influence, Dr.
The true number of casualties on both sides is still unclear, with Chinese officials yet to release a statement of the scale of the damage on their side.
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