Tibet exile government says 30 killed in protests

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Thirty people have been killed in clashes between Chinese authorities and Tibetan protesters, the Tibetan government-in-exile said on Saturday.

"We have confirmed 30 ... This information is based on calls from Tibetans to the outside world," Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the government-in-exile, told Reuters from his office in northern India.

Samphel said protests had spread outside Lhasa but gave no details.

China's Xinhua state news agency had earlier said 10 "innocent civilians" were shot or burnt to death in fires that accompanied street clashes in the remote, mountain capital on Friday.

(Reporting by Jonathan Allena)