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<\/p>\nThe Indian military on Monday said it had handed back a Chinese soldier held near a remote Himalayan border where thousands of troops from the two nuclear-armed neighbours have been facing off for months after a deadly clash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe PLA soldier who had been apprehended on Jan 8, 2021, has been handed back to China at Chushul-Moldo at 10:10am today,\u201d the Indian Army said in a statement, referring to the People\u2019s Liberation Army of China.<\/p>\n
China had called on Saturday for the swift return of a soldier who had gone missing a day earlier along the border, adding it had reported the incident to Indian authorities.<\/p>\n
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The soldier had been\u00a0apprehended by Indian troops south of Pangong Tso lake in the western Himalayan region of Ladakh, which borders Chinese-controlled Tibet, an Indian official said.<\/p>\n
This is the second such incident in recent months. Last October, a Chinese soldier straying across the border in Ladakh\u2019s Demchok had been held by Indian troops and returned within days.<\/p>\n
Indian and Chinese troops remain locked in a high-altitude confrontation along the border in Ladakh, where soldiers clashed in brutal hand-to-hand combat\u00a0last June.<\/p>\n
Twenty Indian troops were killed in the clash, and the Chinese side suffered an undisclosed number of casualties.<\/p>\n
Both sides have since said that they are looking to find ways to\u00a0de-escalate the situation\u00a0on the border, but talks have made little headway and both sides have maintained a heavy military deployment through the freezing winter months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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