On June 29, the Indian Army Command Center issued a statement saying that an Indian T-72 tank sank into a river in the Sarr Bronsa area near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh region of the China-India border, killing five Indian soldiers.
Perhaps it is the heroic soul guarding the border of the motherland, the river into which the Indian tank fell is the Shiyok River, the upstream of this river is the Galwan River, the place where the accident occurred is very close to the Galwan Valley where Chinese soldiers fought back against the Indian army's provocation in May 2020, where 4 Chinese heroes died heroically while resisting the invasion, and 20 Indian soldiers died.
As early as 2016, India hyped up the deployment of more than 100 T-72 tanks on the Sino-Indian border, and then these tanks did not move, but I did not expect them to appear in the news again when they were sunk in the river.
The T-72 main battle tank is a type of main battle tank designed and produced by the former Soviet Union in the early 70s of the 20th century, and the Indian Army is equipped with a total of 2,410 such tanks, many of which are old and facing replacement.
According to the Indian Army Command Center, the accident was caused by a sudden rise in the water level of the Shiyok River while India was conducting military training.
However, some netizens commented that according to the stunt performance during India's annual military parade, it may be that these five people were performing an operation mistake caused by pressing the Arhat on the steering wheel during training.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh called it an "unfortunate accident".