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Bhutan says Prince not hurt

Samdrup Jongkhar (Bhutan) Dec. 21. The Bhutan Government today denied reports that Prince Jigyel Wangchuck was injured in the current operations against militants.

The Bhutan Government spokesman, Yeshey Dorjee, said here that the Prince was neither wounded nor was in the frontline of the offensive.

Mr. Dorjee said the Prince was fine and unhurt as ``he was only part of the civilians who volunteered to guard and provide security at vital installations and not of the army''. ``The Prince, to save his motherland and its sovereignty, left his studies in Oxford midway to join his father in uprooting the ULFA, the NDFB and the KLO militants who had illegally set up camps in Bhutan for the past 12 years,'' Mr. Dorjee said. — PTI

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