BAGHDAD, Dec 3: Gunmen killed a police general in Baghdad on Monday while four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead in a separate incident in northern Iraq, officials said.

Major General Fawzi Mohammed Hussein, an adviser to Interior Minister Jawad Bolani, was killed by unidentified gunmen while driving in his car in west Baghdad, a security official said.

The Iraqi army, meanwhile, said unidentified gunmen killed four soldiers and abducted another from the oil pipelines protection force at Al-Fatha town, 95 km southwest of Kirkuk.

“Gunmen attacked the five soldiers when they left the military's headquarters early Monday killing four of them and abducting another one,” said army Lieutenant Omar al-Juburi.—AFP