Satellite images reveal how India and China clashed after days of build-up

Days after the ugly face off between India and China broke out in Ladakh, satellite images from the Galwan Valley show how the two forces met each other in battlefield. Troops from this area likely surged to India's areas in the Galwan Valley, where hundreds of soldiers clashed on Monday at a height of 15,000 feet up in the Himalayas. Indian soldiers were assaulted with iron rods, stones wrapped in barbed wire and nail-studded clubs in the fight that started in the afternoon and went on till midnight.

Soldiers were even thrown off a high ridge into the icy Galwan river.Indian soldiers observed Chinese ambulances taking away bodies and casualties in the area. Helicopters took them away to other locations. The area also saw violent clashes in 1962, when Indian posts were overrun. But in over five decades, there had been no violence and no active Chinese presence. It is believed that the Chinese were looking to target India's new road, which links Daulat Beg Oldie to the North with Darbuk to the South. Twenty soldiers including a Colonel were killed in the line of duty on Monday.