Ladkh : In a savage attack, with few parallels in modern armies, Chinese troops armed with iron rods and batons carried out torturous carnage along Himalayan border in the east of Ladakh, slaying at least 23 Indian soldiers, including a colonel.
According to reports, furious hand-to-hand fighting raged across the Galwan river valley for over eight hours on Monday night, where People’s Liberation Army assault teams armed with iron rods as well as batons, wrapped in barbed wire hunted down and slaughter troops of the 16 Bihar Regiment. The unconventional brutal ambush has claimed life of 23, soldiers, including 16 Bihar’s commanding officer, colonel Santosh Babu. The Indian Army said, some deaths happened from protracted exposure to sub-zero temperatures.
“Eve unarmed men who fled into the hillsides were hunted down and killed. Those dead include men who jumped into the Galwan river in a desperate attempt to escape,” a senior army officer told News 18.
According to military sources, the two sides suffered causalities and are now ‘disengaged”. And, close to 30 soldiers are battling life-threatening injuries and the toll is likely to go up, they added.
