The Talibans in Afghanistan beheaded two boys in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar for spying, BBC quotes officials.

One of the boys is a 10-year-old who is said to accept food dole outs from the police to ensure there is food on the table for his family. The other victim is 16 years old, but there is little information about him.

The younger boy was reportedly killed on Sunday, but the incident was reported only the next day. The Kandahar government condemned the killings while the Taliban denied killing the boy and also condemned his death.

It is not the first time that the Talibans were accused of beheading children. In 2012, the group reportedly beheaded a 12-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl in south and east Afghanistan, but like the current killing it then denied responsibility for the action.

Meanwhile, seven Armed Talibans also launched a pre-dawn attack on Monday near the airport. Their target was NATO's airport headquarters using rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and one large bomb. The attack wounded two Afghan civilians but killed all the attackers after several hours of battle.

It was the third offensive in a month that targeted high-profile places in and around Kabul. Besides the airport attack, six Talibans attired in suicide bomb vests attempted to hit the provincial capital building and another three militants tried to attack a district police headquarters.

"These cowardly terrorist attacks on the Afghan people cannot change the chosen path of the Afghan people towards progress, development, peace and elections," Afghan President Hamid Karzai was quoted by The Washington Post.