KATHMANDU, Dec 17 (AFP) - A group of Tibetans arrested in Nepal while making their way to India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will be handed to Chinese border guards, a Nepal police source said Tuesday.

The 82 Tibetans, including 12 women and some children, were arrested last week in different groups near Solokumbu district in the Everest region, the border police source said.

They were detained for entering Nepal without visas. The source said the Tibetans were planning to proceed to Dharmshala in northern India to meet their religious head the Dalai Lama.

Five of those arrested were detained for creating a disturbance while under the influence of alcohol.

The Nepali Department of Immigragtion will hand the Tibetans over at a Chinese border checkpoint at Kodari, on the Nepal-Tibet frontier, about 114 kilometres (72 miles) northeast of Kathmandu.