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A picture on The Bbc by an Indian military spokesman shows crude weapons allegedly in The Fight

popped up image, shows a crude weapon allegedly used by Chinese troops in the deadly brawl of China's disputed border with India on Monday.

The Fight in The Galwan valley, left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead and heightened tensions between the two powers.

China has not to have any losses among his troops. Both sides accused The Other of a robbery.

The Border between The Two Nations in the region is poorly defined, and may be moving with topographical changes.

The picture was taken on Thursday, crude oil showed weapons, which seemed to be made of iron rods, shod with nails. It was The Bbc that had been used by a senior Indian military on the official India-China border, said that the weapons of the Chinese.

a defense analyst Ajai Shukla , who first described The Image , tweeted that the use of such weapons as "barbarism". The lack of weapons in the dispute dates Back To a 1996 agreement between the Two Sides , the prohibited weapons and explosives, along the disputed stretch of The Border , in order to increase as a deterrent.

The Image was widely shared on Twitter in India, prompting outrage by many Social Media users. Neither Chinese or Indian officials commented on it.

media reports that troops clashed on a mountain ridge at an altitude of nearly 4,267 m (14,000 ft) along a steep terrain, with some soldiers to the river in sub-zero temperatures to fall into the fast-flowing Galwan.

The First deaths in the past four decades,

The Two Sides have brawled along the disputed border in recent weeks, but Monday's clash was The First to lead to death in at least 45 Years . Unconfirmed reports in The Indian media said at least 40 Chinese soldiers died, but China is still no information about victims. Some Indian soldiers are always lost yet.

Chinese foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said, India, The Border had crossed it twice, "to provoke, and the attacking Chinese staff, causing serious physical confrontation between border troops on both sides", reported AFP news Agency.

China, on Wednesday, claimed that "sovereignty over the Galwan valley region" - a claim refuted by India, as "excessive and unsustainable".

Indian Army trucks moving along a highway leading to Ladakh on Wednesday

members of The Public in both States have since staged protests over clashes in the disputed Himalayan border area, while the officials have spoken, careful, and moved in the direction of a diplomatic solution.

Indian foreign Ministry spokesman Anurag Srivastava said The Foreign Ministers of the two countries had a telephone conversation on Wednesday about the developments and "agreed that the General situation is to be handled in a responsible manner"

"Make exaggerated and untenable assertions in contradiction to this understanding," Mr Srivastava was quoted as saying by the press trust of India News Agency.

An Indian government statement after Subrahmanyam Jaishankar interview with China's Wang Yi said, the Chinese forces tried to build a structure on The Indian side of the De Facto border, The Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The Statement accused the Chinese of a "deliberate and planned action that was directly responsible for the resulting violence and victims" and called on China to "corrective steps".

Meanwhile, a Chinese-cited statement of Mr. Wang said: "China is again a strong protest to India and requirements of The Indian side, starts a thorough investigation. and you don't stop all provocative actions, the same things happen again. "

- Why were there no weapons?

The Galwan river valley in Ladakh, with its harsh climate and the high-Alpine terrain and is located along the Western sector of the LAC and in the vicinity of Aksai Chin, a disputed territory claimed by India but controlled by China.

This is not the First Time that the two nuclear-fought armed neighbors without conventional firearms at The Border . India and China have a history of face-offs and overlapping territorial claims all along the More Than 3.440 km (2,100 miles), poorly-drawn LAC separates the Two Sides .

The Last firing at The Border in 1975 happened when four Indian soldiers were killed in a remote pass in the North-Eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh . The Clash was variously described by former diplomats as an ambush and lead to an accident. But no bullets have been fired since.

At the root, this is a 1996 bilateral agreement that says: "no page is opened Fire . Conduct blast operations or hunt with guns or explosives within two kilometers from The Line of Actual control".

But there were other tense confrontations along The Border in recent weeks. In may, Indian and Chinese soldiers physical blows exchanged after The Border at Pangong Lake, in Ladakh and in the North-Eastern Indian state of Sikkim, and hundreds of miles to The East .

India has accused China to send thousands of troops in Ladakh Galwan valley, and China occupies 38,000 sq km (14,700 square miles) of its territory. Several rounds of talks have failed in The Last three decades, to solve The Border disputes.

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Source of news: bbc.com