It was the first deadly conflict between Indian and Chinese soldiers along the contested LAC in 45 years. The moment the Indian soldiers realised that their CO, Colonel B Santosh Babu, had fallen they fought against the Chinese soldiers with all their might and killed 16 of them and inflicted life-threatening injuries on scores of others in a fearsome counter attack. The Indian and Chinese COs were killed in the second and the most fierce round of fighting. The clash involved 600 soldiers from both sides, with the Indians badly outnumbered. Details from the debriefing of Indian soldiers involved in the skirmish reveal the heroism of the Indian troops who fought off numerically superior rivals and the tactics of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.

Source: Hindustan Times June 22, 2020 15:45 UTC