Chinese troops crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into India at least thrice in the last month in Uttarakhand, ANI reported, quoting sources.
According to ANI’s sources, soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed as far as four kilometres into Barahoti village in the Chamoli district of the state.
The news of these fresh incursions follows reports in March that the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police had informed the Centre that Chinese helicopters had committed at least five aerial intrusions into India in the first three months of 2018.
Similar LAC transgressions had also taken place in July 2017 when Chinese troops entered and crossed into at least a kilometre of Indian territory in Barahoti. Barahoti had also been witness to aerial transgressions by Chinese helicopters and infiltrations on foot by Chinese troops in both 2013 and 2014.
The LAC is a 4,057-km border between India and China that runs across snow, glaciers, deserts, mountains, and rivers.
(With inputs from ANI)
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