Suspected Islamic militants in a restive Pakistani tribal town beheaded a man accused of spying for US forces across the border on Wednesday, officials said. The militants dumped the body of the unidentified victim in his 20s in an isolated area near the northwestern town of Khar in the Bajaur tribal district, local administration official Fazle Rabbi said. “Villagers found the beheaded body and informed us,” he said. The militants, the official said, had left a note near the body, which read, “Those who spy for US forces will meet this fate.” It was the second killing this week of an alleged US spy in the area, after militants on Tuesday slit the throat of a 40-year-old Afghan refugee from the neighbouring Afghan province of Kunar. Hundreds of extremists fled into Pakistan’s mountainous border areas after the ouster of the Taliban regime in the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, where they found support from conservative Pakistani tribesmen.