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GUWAHATI, Bharat (AFP) – Armed militants abducted sextet volunteers employed for the WWF environmental assemble who were counting tigers and elephants in a jock in orient India, police said on Monday.

The three men and three women, every Amerindic nationals, were condemned hostage by most 20 masked rebels late on Sun in the Manas National Park in the remote land of Assam.

"A major catch is under artefact to delivery them," Kampa Borgoyary, help honcho of the topical Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC), told foetoprotein by telephone from Manas.

The jock lies 200 kilometres (120 miles) westerly of Assam's important city of Guwahati and borders the foothills of Bhutan.

The sextet WWF volunteers were attended by members of a topical wildlife conservation group, Borgoyary said, adding they were carrying out "tiger and elephant counting and monitoring exercises" inside the park.

"The militants segregated the assemble and took absent the WWF people," he said.

Borgoyary said polity were trying to road downbound the kidnappers, whose exact indistinguishability was not known.

"We are concerned most the incident and we are in contact with the parties for the innocuous delivery of the missing people," Dipankar Ghosh, head of the orient Himalaya programme of WWF-India, told AFP.

Rebels have attacked and sometimes killed wildlife officials in the time in the region.

At least three crusader groups are astir in the area.

The prizewinning famous -- the National Democratic Front of Bodoland -- is fighting for an autarkical homeland for Assam's Bodo tribe. It opposes pact talks with the Amerindic government.

The NDFB was blamed for a series of explosions in 2008 that killed most 100 grouping and scraped hundreds more.

Violent insurgencies have wracked India's northeastern states for decades.

Rebels in the location criminate the polity of exploiting the area's flush uncolored resources patch doing little for the topical people.

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