KABUL, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Taliban insurgents beheaded a teenager in southern Afghanistan, who was accused of spying for Afghan and foreign troops, a local police said Thursday.

    Taliban militants abducted an 18-year old boy, who they claimed was a spy, in Nawbahar district of Helmand province on Wednesday, district police chief Zarif Khan told Xinhua.

    The teenager's beheaded body was found on Thursday, he added.

    Zarif alleged the ill-fated boy was innocent and had no cooperation with government and foreign troops.

    Taliban militants kidnapped a 14-year-old son of police chief of Sangin district in Helmand on June 23 and beheaded him.