Kabul , Afghanistan ( CNN ) -- Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy , accusing him of spying for the government , officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday . The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province , said Dawoud Ahmadi -- the provincial governor 's spokesman . In the past , militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying , Ahmadi said . Three years ago , a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations , he said . During a news conference Thursday , Afghan President Hamid Karzai said officials were looking into reports of the execution and said he condemned the act if it is confirmed to be true . `` I do n't think there 's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit , '' Karzai said . `` A 7-year-old boy can not be a spy . A 7-year-old boy can not be anything but a 7-year-old boy , and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a 7-year-old boy ... is a crime against humanity . '' `` If this is true , it is an absolutely hiorrific crime , '' British Prime Minister David Cameron said during the news conference on an unannounced stop in Kabul . `` If true , I think it says more about the Taliban than any book , than any article , than any speech could ever say . ''
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