Taliban Militants have executed a seven year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today Friday June 11th.
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The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighbouring village where he was put on trial.
His captors found him guilty of working for the government.
The child was then hanged in public in the village of Heratiyan, in the southern Sangin district of Helmand province.
Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai condemned the act as a 'crime against humanity' if proved and said officials were investigating.
'I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit,' he said.
'A seven-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A seven-year-old boy cannot be anything but a seven-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a seven-year-old boy... is a crime against humanity.'
The execution came as 40 people - mainly children and teenagers - were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a wedding.
Another 77 were injured after the blast ripped through the party in Kandahar.
The bombing happened at around 9pm yesterday in a housing compound where men had gathered during the festivities.
Witnesses said the family that was attacked included a number of Afghan police officers.
The groom's brother and two of his cousins were in the police force, according to another cousin, Mohammad Alkozay.
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