India, Sept. 12 -- US Senator Bill Hagerty has stirred a controversy after claiming that China used an electromagnetic weapon to melt down Indian soldiers during a border conflict five years ago.

Hagerty did not take the name of the conflict; but refer to it five years ago pointing to the Galwan border conflict where India lost its 20 soldiers in 2020.

The statement came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the SCO Summit.

"The China and India have a long history of grievances. Five years ago, China and India were fighting over a border dispute and China used an electromagnetic weapon to melt Indian soldiers," he said in a statement.

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