Indian and Chinese troops clashed on Friday on the Himalayan border in Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh, according to the press release shared by the India’s Ministry of Defense on Monday.
According to the statement, soldiers from both sides suffered minor injuries in the face-off which took place in the eastern tip of India that borders southern China.
“Both sides immediately disengaged from the area,” according to a news report, which quoted the Indian army, mentioning that at least six of the Indian soldiers were injured.
It added that commanders from both sides had held a meeting immediately after “to restore peace and tranquility”.
India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Tuesday, told the parliament that no Indian soldiers had been “hurt or seriously injured” in the face-off and that the occurrence has been “taken up at diplomatic levels”.
He further noted that because of “timely intervention of Indian military commanders, PLA soldiers went back to their positions”.
China, on the other hand, is yet to comment on the stand-off.
Indo-China border Dispute
India and China share a poorly demarcated 3,440km (2,100 mile) long disputed border, known as the Line of Actual Control, or LAC which occasionally becomes the source of friction between the two sides.
Previously in June 2020 tensions escalated when both sides got into hand-to-hand fighting resulting in the deaths of at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers in Galwan Valley, Aksai Chin-Ladakh. Since then the two countries had been trying to de-escalate the tensions.