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CALCUTTA, India, Wednesday (Reuters)

Thousands of Indian troops backed by helicopters sealed the border with Bhutan to help the Bhutanese army flush out anti-Indian guerrillas from camps on its soil. Bhutanese forces attacked a string of rebel camps in the forested south of the small Himalayan kingdom for the first time on Monday, destroying several of them. A Bhutanese government official in New Delhi said 16 soldiers were hurt in the fighting.
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