China acknowledges 5 Chinese soldiers were killed in Galwan Valley clash

Twenty Indian soldiers were killed in the fierce hand-to-hand combat on June 15 in Galwan Valley. The CMC, the overall high command of the PLA headed by President Xi Jinping, has awarded Qi Fabao, the regimental commander from the PLA Xinjiang Military Command, the title of ‘Hero regimental commander for defending the border’, Chen Hongjun with ‘Hero to defend the border’, and awarded first-class merit to Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran. According to the reports, for the first time China has acknowledged casualties and details of these officers and soldiers’ sacrifice, four of whom died when dealing with the Indian military’s “illegal trespassing” of the Galwan Valley Line of Actual Control (LAC). While India had announced the casualties immediately after the incident, China did not officially acknowledge the casualties until Friday. Also Read | Watch: Haryana woman lies on railway track to escape being run over According to reports, 45 Chinese servicemen were killed in the Galwan Valley clash on February 10. According to an American intelligence report last year, the number of casualties on the Chinese side was 35. Both countries had rushed a large number of battle tanks, armored vehicles and heavy equipment to the treacherous and high-altitude areas of eastern Ladakh region after tension escalated following a deadly clash in the Galwan Valley in June last year. -PTC News