The suicide attack in the refinery and power station town of Baiji targeted a police patrol and also wounded 18 people, police in the Salaheddin provincial capital of Tikrit said.

In Baghdad, the general, whom police identified only by his first name Khodr, was blown up by a magnetic bomb in Aden Square in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiyah in the north of the city.

A second magnetic bomb killed one person and wounded two outside an army officers' club in Al-Hurriya in northwest Baghdad, police said. There was no immediate word on whether the casualties were soldiers or civilians.

And a roadside bomb killed one person and wounded four in a car in the capital's mainly Sunni Arab southern district of Dora, police said.

In the heart of Baghdad, police thwarted a bomb attack on a convoy transporting cash to and from the central bank, detonating it in a controlled explosion after clearing the area, the interior ministry said.

The bomb was planted in a rubbish skip in the Rasheed Street area and the explosion was heard across the city centre.

A bomb disposal team was called in after police spotted the device and it was blown up without any casualties, a ministry official said.

There have been a string of attacks by insurgents against economic targets in Iraq in recent weeks, including a suicide attack on the central bank in Baghdad, which killed 18 people, and two suicide car bombings outside the Baghdad branch of the Trade Bank of Iraq that left 26 people dead.

North of Baghdad, four members of a Sunni family, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed in the town of Khalis, in Diyala province, a security official said.

"Gunmen carrying rifles and pistols burst in and fired, killing the girl and three men aged between 25 and 35," said the official.

In the main northern city of Mosul, gunmen stormed a house in the central Zanjili neighbourhood killing a woman and wounding two other people, police said.

Some 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Mosul, gunmen opened fire on a car in the village of Shura, killing one man and wounding his brother, police said.

In Zaaferaniya, on the southern outskirts of the capital, gunmen stormed a house and killed a 28-year-old woman.

West of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a leading academic in the Euphrates valley town of Hit, also wounding two other people, police said.

Ahmed Jumaa was vice chancellor of the Islamic University in the Al-Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi but lived in Hit.

East of Ramadi, troops killed a suicide bomber, foiling a multiple attack on Muslim worshippers gathering before dawn for prayers, the defence ministry said.

The Iraqi unit had lain in ambush for the bomber after receiving an intelligence tip-off about the planned attack on the Hay al-Akrad mosque in the town of Al-Khaldiya and made safe two other bombs, the ministry said.

In another incident on the northern outskirts of the capital, saboteurs blew up a key oil pipeline in Rashidiyeh district, Baghdad operations command said.

The pipeline links an oil refinery and power station in Dora with Baiji, a key junction on the supply network from Iraq's northern oil fields around Kirkuk.

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