KATHMANDU, Aug 25 (AFP) - At least 68 Tibetans were arrested in northeastern Nepal for illegally entering the country, the state-run news agency the RSS said Sunday.

The radio said they were arrested on Thursday and were being held in a Tibetan refugee camp at Solukhumbu, 165 kilometres (100 miles) northeast of Kathmandu, where they crossed from Tibet into Nepal.

"Police said they will be brought to Kathmandu this week and handed over to the department of immigration," it said, adding those arrested included some children.

Tibetans come to Nepal to go to Dharamsala, India, to meet the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader who has been living there since the failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in the late 1960s.