BAGHDAD (AFP) - 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 advisor to Interior Minister Jawad Bolani, was killed by unidentified gunmen while driving in his car in west Baghdad, a security official said.
The general's driver was wounded in the attack, which was carried out by gunmen driving a Dodge car, the 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 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of the northern oil hub 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.
Medics in Kirkuk hospital confirmed that the hospital had received the bodies of four soldiers who had been shot dead.
In another incident, an education official was shot dead in his car at Samarra, 120 kilometres (85 miles) north of Baghdad, said police Major Abdul Qadir Abbas.
Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded when their checkpoint was sprayed with gunfire by unknown attackers near the northern oil refinery town of Baiji, police said.