PLA intrudes into Ladakh once more

Leh/New Delhi: The People’s Liberation Army of China is understood to have made a two-pronged simultaneous incursion by sending its troops into Indian waters in the Pangong lake and also five km deep into Indian territory through the land route in the same area, agency reports stated.

Official sources cited reports received by security agencies, Chinese boats entered into the Indian waters at the Pangong lake nestled in the higher reaches of Ladakh on October 22.  

These incursions were simultaneously backed by Chinese troops on the road built alongside the Pangong lake which took place in eastern Ladakh and on the northern bank of Pangong Lake, located 168 km from Leh, sources said.

The simultaneous approach was seen as a move by the Chinese troops to put psychological pressure on the Indian troops in the area.

ITBP soldiers noticed the movement of Chinese troops and intercepted them. The soldiers also blocked the Chinese troops mounted on mountain terrain vehicles who were trying to cross over the LAC by road. A banner drill, in which both sides  wave banners claiming it to be their territory, was carried out.

Chinese troops had to return after the Indian troops did not allow them to move either by boats or through road, the sources said.

The Chinese had managed to enter upto Finger IV area in the region from where they were sent back.