India foiled a Chinese incursion near Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, where around 200 troops of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had crossed over into Indian territory and tried to damage unoccupied defences, including bunkers of the Indian Army.
The Indian Army had temporarily detained a few Chinese soldiers during the incursion, the report says, adding that the incident took place between the border passes of Bum La and Yangtse (25 km east of Bum La).
"The matter was subsequently resolved at the local military commanders' level. The Chinese soldiers were released and situation was defused," it quotes a source in the government as saying.
The development comes just weeks after dozens of Chinese soldiers transgressed over 5 km into Indian territory in Barahoti in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district. The incident, which took place in August this year, lasted a few hours, after which Chinese soldiers left the area.
China lays claim to all of Arunachal as "south Tibet". It is particularly interested Tawang, the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama and hosts to the Galden Namgey Lhatse (also called Tawang Monastery), the second largest monastery of Tibetan Buddhism in the world and the largest outside Tibet. It was built on the wishes of the fifth Dalai Lama.
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