{"id":139805,"date":"2022-12-15T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=139805"},"modified":"2022-12-15T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T09:25:22","slug":"a-decade-old-image-is-falsely-shared-as-chinese-troops-killed-in-border-clash-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/a-decade-old-image-is-falsely-shared-as-chinese-troops-killed-in-border-clash-with-india\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old photo of coffins shared as Chinese casualty in Arunachal clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of soldiers sustained injuries in the <\/span>December 9 clash between Indian and Chinese troops<\/span><\/a> in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Tawang sector. Against this backdrop, a photo of a row of flower adorned coffins inside a tent is making the rounds on social media. A photo is displayed at the top of each coffin. It is being claimed that the coffins belong to Chinese soldiers who were killed during the December 9 face-off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter handle \u2018Defence360\u2019 shared the photo, claiming that 20 Chinese soldiers were killed during the December 9 clash between Indian and Chinese personnel in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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User Ankit Shah, who describes himself as an observer of foreign policy and security, promoted the photo linking it to Tawang. (<\/span>Archived link<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fact Check<\/span><\/h4>\n

Alt News performed a reverse image search and found another version of the image in a December 10, 2010 article by Chinese portal <\/span>‘Sina’<\/span><\/a>. According to the article, 15 soldiers were killed on December 7 of the same year when a fire broke out in the forests of China\u2019s Sichuan province. Furthermore, their coffins were taken to Kangding where a public condolence meeting was held inside a hall at the Kangding Gymnasium.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Note: The article seen in the screenshot below has been translated from Chinese to English.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We also found a report dated December 10, 2010 on the <\/span>India Today website<\/span><\/a>. The report cited Xinhua, China\u2019s official news agency, and stated that 22 people were killed in a wildfire in the Sichuan province of China. Of the 22 killed, 15 were Chinese soldiers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To sum it up, several social media users falsely shared a 12-year-old picture of coffins of Chinese soldiers who were killed in a forest fire linking it to the recent skirmish between Indian and Chinese forces in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of soldiers sustained injuries in the December 9 clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Tawang sector. Against this backdrop, a photo of a row of flower adorned coffins inside a tent is making the rounds on social media. A photo is displayed at the top of each coffin. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":139892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[701],"class_list":["post-139805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/12\/tawang-coffinss.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139805"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139893,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139805\/revisions\/139893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139805"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=139805"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=139805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}