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At the time, India acknowledged the death of 20 of its soldiers, while Chinese authorities admitted there were casualties, but provided no specific details.
But now in a video aired by the state broadcaster CCTV, Beijing has finally confirmed that four of its soldiers died in the conflict.
The state channel claimed that the footage showed an Indian army "several times the size of the Chinese side" initiating a brutal revenge attack.
Images from the video are said to capture the bloody hand-to-hand combat between the two sides.
CHINA has confirmed that it lost four soldiers in the deadly Himalayan border clash (Image: Getty)
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