Indian and Chinese troops in deadly border clash; three Indian soldiers killed

A general view of the Pangong Lake in Leh district of Union territory of Ladakh bordering India and China. Three Indian soldiers have been killed in a clash on the Chinese border, the Indian army said on Tuesday (June 16) following weeks of rising tensions and the deployment of thousands of extra troops from both sides. - AFP

NEW DELHI (AFP): Three Indian soldiers were killed in a violent face-off on the Chinese border, the Indian army said Tuesday (June 16), following weeks of rising tensions and the deployment of thousands of extra troops from both sides.

Brawls erupt regularly between the two nuclear-armed giants across their disputed 3,500km (2,200-mile) frontier, but no one has been killed in decades.