13 Tibetan asylum-seekers arrested in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal

Police in Sindhupalchowk have arrested 13 Tibetans, who were on their way to Kathmandu after crossing the Nepal-Tibet border illegally.
The Tibetans were trying to enter Kathmandu from Bhotechour but were stopped by local residents and then handed over to the police on Friday. Reports said the locals even beat up the refugees, suspecting them as members of a gang involved in human trafficking.
According to police, the Tibetans said they wanted to go to the northern Indian town of Dharmashala, from Kathmandu, where the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama is based.
The arrested Tibetans have been kept at the Immigration Office in Tatopani, the bordering town in Sindhupalchowk.