China denies burial to soldiers killed in Galwan clash with India: US media

China can't accept that its soldiers were killed in the showdown in order to cover up an episode that Beijing appears to consider a blunder, says report.

China is presssing families of soldiers killed in a clash with Indian troops in Galwan Valley mid-June not not to conduct public burials or funerals, according to a US media report quoting American intelligence assessment.

India has said that 20 of its soldiers were killed in the clash on June 15 and hailed them as heroes. The soldiers were given state funerals in their home states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his monthly radio programme on June 28, the sacrifice of the solidiers and their families is "worth worshipping".

China is not accepting that its soldiers were killed in the showdown in order