Suspected Taliban shot dead a district intelligence officer in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said on Tuesday. The fresh attack was carried out in Waghaz district of the troubled Ghazni province. The officer named Noor Mohammad, was head of the district intelligence department. Police chief of the province Tafseer Khan said the victim was on way from office to his house when his car was ambushed by Taliban insurgents. They fired several bursts of Kalashnikov at the vehicle killing the officer on the spot. Ghazni province has turned into the most dangerous place for government employees in recent months. Taliban fighters are targeting government employees, pro-government religious scholars and burning schools in the province. In the Andar district of the same province, the militants have banned movement of vehicles by planting landmines on roads leading to the provincial capital. The Taliban also claimed attacking a joint convoy of the coalition forces and Afghan police in the same province. The Afghan authorities confirmed the attack but they rejected Taliban's claim regarding casualties among the coalition and Afghan forces.