Indian Army informed that 20 soldiers were martyred in the clash. However, China did not reveal its number of casualties. However, one report on a US media website pegged the death count for China at 35.
Later on, news agency PTI also said that 35 dead and injured on the Chinese side.
As M. Taylor Fravel, a China expert from MIT noted: “I can think of no armed conflict involving China where it has released casualty figures publicly at the time of the conflict. Usually, they are published years or decades later. Casualties from 1962 war only published in 1994 internal history.”
On Tuesday, news agency ANI, known to be close to the current dispensation, pegged the casualties plus death figures at 43.
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A day later ANI, citing sources, which is euphemism for messages from officials which no one wants to take credit or blame for, claimed that the Commanding Officer of the PLA was killed.
ANI also wrote earlier citing sources: “It is assessed that the Chinese suffered a significant number of casualties in the violent face off on the night of June 15-16. The assessment is based on the number of Chinese soldiers evacuated from the face-off location on stretchers and subsequently by ambulance vehicles on the track along the Galwan river, as also the increased Chinese helicopter movement.”
