Washington, March 21: Taliban militants have beheaded three men accused of spying for US forces, Pakistani police have told AFP.
The bodies of three men were found near Mir Ali town in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal district, which borders Afghanistan.
“Notes found with the bodies said the men were killed for spying for the US,” police official Nisar Khan told AFP.
Mr Khan said the three dead men had themselves killed “several Taliban and ordinary people”.
A local security official confirmed the incident.
Militants frequently kidnap and kill local tribesmen for spying for the Pakistani Government or US forces, who are battling a Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s rugged tribal regions have been wracked by violence since becoming a stronghold for hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaeda rebels who fled across the border to escape the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001.
—Agencies