LEH, India—A Tibetan soldier serving with a secret regiment within the Indian army died hours after the unit recaptured a mountain peak that India lost to China in their 1962 war, marking the first publicly recognized Tibetan military casualty in action against the People’s Liberation Army.
Nyima Tenzin, 51, was on patrol with the covert unit on Aug. 29-30, when he was killed by a land mine laid by the Chinese on the treacherous, disputed Himalayan border that for the past few months has become an issue of serious contention between India and China.
