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17 Tibetans arrested in Ladakh
Mukhtar Ahmad in Srinagar
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April 05, 2008 23:31 IST

Seventeen Tibetans were arrested on Saturday for trying to cross into China from the cold desert region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir [Images].

Coverage: Tibet Revolts

Tibet [Images]an refugees in the Buddhist majority Leh district of Ladakh have been carrying on daily protests since the past one month against the alleged Chinese excesses in Tibet.

Police said a group of 15 men and two women was intercepted and arrested in the border village of Humua in Leh district.

"A case has been registered against them," a police spokesman said in Srinagar [Images].



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