Twenty such Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in a fierce clash with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night. Initially, the army said one officer and two soldiers were killed. Later in the night, an army statement said 17 more soldiers who "were were critically injured in the line of duty at the stand-off location and exposed to sub-zero temperatures in the high altitude terrain have succumbed to their injuries, taking the total that were killed in action to 20."

Taking to Twitter, a journalist shared names of the 20 Indian Army soldiers.

印度陸軍士兵遠離家鄉和親人，犧牲了生命，使我們的國家能夠安然入睡。 這些士兵堅守在最嚴酷的高山環境，必須承受嚴寒和酷熱。

周一晚上，在上拉達克東部加爾萬河谷與中國軍隊的激烈衝突中，有20名包括上校的印度陸軍人員喪生。 最初，軍方說，一名軍官和兩名士兵被殺。 當晚晚些時候，一份軍方聲明說，又有17名士兵“在對峙地點的執行任務中受到嚴重傷害，並在高海拔地區暴露於零下溫度下，已經全部陣亡， 在衝突中被殺害20人。”

一位記者在推特上分享了20名印度陸軍士兵的名字。

Here's the full list of 20 soldiers who martyred:

1. Naib Subedar Satnam Singh

2. Naib Subedar Mandip Singh

3. Sepoy Kundan Kumar

4. Sepoy Aman Kumar

5. Naik Deepak Singh

6. Sepoy Chandan Kumar

7. Sepoy Ganesh Hansda

8. Sepoy Ganesh Ram

9. Sepoy K.K. Ojha

10. Sepoy Rajesh Orang

11. Sepoy C.K. Pradhan

12. Naib Subedar Nanduram Soren

13. Havildar Sunil Kumar

14. Colonel B. Santosh Babu

15. Sepoy Jai Kishore Singh

16. Havildar Bipul Roy

17. Sepoy Gurtej Singh

18. Sepoy Ankush

19. Sepoy Gurwinder Singh

20. Havildar K. Palani

另據BBC及英國廣播公司報道，中方在這次衝突中陣亡43名軍人，而中方至今沒有公布任何中國軍方人員傷亡情況，更沒有陣人員名單公布。