Baghdad, June 29: Bomb blasts have killed three people, including a senior army officer, in Baghdad while militants have sabotaged a key oil pipeline north of the Iraqi capital.
The general, who police identified only by his first name Khodr, was killed on Tuesday in Aden Square in the shrine district of Kadhimain, also known as Kadhimiya, in northern Baghdad, AFP reported.
A second magnetic bomb killed one person and left two others wounded outside an army officers’ club in al-Hurriya in northwest Baghdad.
One person was killed and another four wounded when a roadside bomb targeted a car in the southern district of Dora, police said.
Meanwhile, Baghdad operations command said saboteurs blew up the oil pipeline in Rashidiyeh district northeast of the capital.
A major pipeline links Baghdad and its Dora oil refinery and power station with the northern town of Baiji, another refining and power generating center.
The pipeline is a key junction point on the supply network from oil fields around the country’s northern governate of Kirkuk.
——–Agencies