Indian soldiers were outnumbered 1:5 during Galwan clashes

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Indian Army troopers were outnumbered by 1:5 when they came under attack from the Chinese People”s Liberation Army soldiers at patrolling point number 14 in Galwan Valley on the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. “We were outnumbered,” admitted an Indian Army officer, talking about the clash on the ridge near the Galwan river that went on for six to seven hours.

China”s PLA troopers “savagely attacked” Indian personnel, according to sources in the government with knowledge of the details of the Monday night clashes between the two sides. “The numbers were stacked up against the Indian Army troopers. Yet, the Indian side decided to fight the PLA. The Indian soldiers were outnumbered 1:5 by the Chinese troopers,” the sources said on Wednesday.

China is also said to have used thermal imaging drones to trace the Indian Army soldiers scattered on the treacherous terrain before mounting the brutal attack on them. “It was the deadliest attack carried on Indian Army personnel by the Chinese military to our memory,” the government sources said.

Sources stated Colonel Santosh Babu, who died in the attack, had gone to see whether the Chinese troops had withdrawn from the stand-off position, as promised by them. Instead they were surprised to see a camp still existing at the point, while the PLA troopers were in riot gears. Chinese trapped the Indian soldiers and brutally attacked them to the “point of mutilation”.