KABUL, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Taliban insurgents executed an old lady on charge of spying for the Afghan and American troops in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, provincial police chief Juma Gul Humat said Thursday.

    "The militants in their crime against humanity accused a 60-year old woman of spying for the American and Afghan troops in Charchino district of Uruzgan province and shot her dead on Wednesday," Gul told Xinhua.

    He did not give more details.

    Taliban militants, who in the past have executed more than a dozen people on charge of espionage for Afghan and foreign troops, have yet to comment on the latest murdering.

    Rising militancy-related violence and conflicts have killed over 6,000 people in the war-torn Afghanistan this year.