GUWAHATI. India. Sept 8: Some 2.000 soldiers from Bhutan are being trained in India to fight Indian rebels who have moved into the Himalayan kingdom and set up camps there, an Indian government official said today, reports Reuters.

The Bhutanese soldiers had also been given assault rifics to tackle the guerrillas operating Irom southern Bhutan, said Indian home (Interior) ministry official. Gopal Krishna Pillai.

The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodo land (NDFB) guerilla groups, both fighting Indian rule in northeast India, set up camps across the border in Bhutan after Indian forces launched offensives against them In 1 990, officials said.