Over 20 Indian soldiers and many more are reportedly wounded after a clash with the Chinese military in the Himalyana border region between the two countries.
The bloody clash comes as tensions have continued to rise between the two countries raising the specter of a potential all out war between the two nations.
The story gets stranger however, as new reports indicate the clash in question saw Indian and Chinese troops fight each other with rocks, iron bars, and bare hands in a narrow mountain pass during which many of them fell to their deaths. As The Guardian reports:
The killings were sparked when a patrol of Indian soldiers encountered Chinese troops in a steep section of the mountainous region they believed the People’s Liberation Army had retreated from, in line with a 6 June disengagement agreement, sources in Delhi said.
The two armies jostled and hand-to-hand fighting broke out – neither side armed in line with decades of tradition supposed to ward off the possibility of escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Then an Indian commanding officer was pushed, fell from the narrow ridge and fell to his death in the gorge below.
Reinforcements from the Indian side were summoned from a post about 2 miles away and eventually about 600 men were fighting with stones, iron rods and other makeshift weapons in near-total darkness for up to six hours, Indian government sources said, with most deaths on both sides occurring from soldiers falling or being knocked from mountain terrain.
That’s an interesting way to fight. Kind of hearkens back to the days of the Neanderthal. Whatever gets the job done I guess.
what china is doing at the border of india is foolish an stupid, india is not honk konk and the have nuclear weapons Pakistan been doing similar action for decades and they have not moved one inch.
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How’s the President going to be blamed for this one?
LOL! Oh just watch. I have seen such deception and Lunacy that I expect at this point they will EVERY SINGLE RABBIT FROM THEIR HAT.
these people are siKKK and manipulative, antagonist and oportunist minds without remorse, ethics, morals and for Certain lack GOD!