Five Indian Soldiers Killed In Ladakh Region

Five Indian troops died after their tank sank in the river while crossing the lake near the Chinese border.

The authorities in the Ladakh region claimed on Saturday that five Indian troops were killed after their tank sank while crossing a river in the Ladakh area, which borders China.

The newly created administrative division, Ladakh, comprises two administrative districts, Leh and Kargil with about 274,289 population per the 2011 census, and division headquarters at Leh district.

ladhak population is split roughly in half between the districts of Leh and Kargil.76.87% population of Kargil is Muslim mostly Shia, with a total population of 140,802, while that of Leh is 66.40% Buddhist, with a total population of 133,48, most of Its economy depends on tourism.

Rajnath Singh, the Indian Defence Minister, and Indian Army chief expressed condolences to the victims' families and called the incident "disappointing".

India and China have been at odds in the region, with widespread worry that the issue might escalate into a larger confrontation.

Along the China-Indian border, particularly between the disputed Pangong Lake in Ladakh and China's Tibet Autonomous Region and along the boundary between Sikkim and the Tibet Autonomous Region, Chinese and Indian forces began engaging in aggressive clashes, face-offs, and skirmishes on May 5, 2020.

Twenty Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese military personnel were killed in an armed conflict in the Galwan Valley region in June 2020.

There were also other conflicts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

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