By Jeffrey Gettleman, Hari Kumar and
NEW DELHI — An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed by Chinese troops late Monday in a clash along the disputed India-China border, Indian officials said, raising tensions between the world’s two most populous nations.
Preliminary reports on Tuesday indicated that the soldiers had not been shot, but had been killed in a brawl involving rocks and wooden clubs that was similar to fights that broke out last month along the border and seriously injured several soldiers on both sides.
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It was the first time in decades that soldiers were killed in a skirmish along the border, military experts said, and it was not immediately clear how India would respond to China, which has a much more powerful military.
Indian officials were tight-lipped about what happened and said they were trying to de-escalate the situation. They had just indicated that tensions with China were calming down after Indian and Chinese troops had faced off at several points high in the Himalayas in the past few weeks. India seemed caught off guard by the new burst of violence, which the two sides blamed on each other.
Source: 3 Indian Soldiers Killed in First Deadly Clash on Chinese Border in Decades
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