NEW DELHI, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Five Indian paramilitary forces have been killed by unidentified gunmen after they were abducted last week from Assam in northeast India, police said Tuesday.

    The bodies of the five paramilitary Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel were recovered Monday from a densely forested area in the neighboring region, about 320 km from Guwahati.

    "A group of woodcutters spotted the dead bodies and it was later confirmed they were the five SSB personnel who were kidnapped earlier in the week," Indo-Asian News Service quoted a senior Assam government official as saying.

    Police said the captors beheaded one of the soldiers, while the others were blindfolded and their hands tied from behind.

    The captors used gunshots and crude implements to kill them, a police official said.

    Six people, including the five SSB troops, were abducted by a group of unidentified gunmen on May 21 from village Moradanshiri in northern Assam's Udalguri district, bordering Bhutan.

    The dead body of the civilian who was kidnapped along with the SSB soldiers was recovered from a nearby village the following morning, a police official said.

    Nobody has claimed responsibility for the killing so far. Enditem