BAGHDAD - Magnetic bombs killed two people in Baghdad on Tuesday, one of them an Iraqi general, as insurgents sabotaged a key oil pipeline on the northern outskirts of the capital, security officials said.

The general, who police identified only by his first name Khodr, was blown up in Aden Square in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiya 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.

Saboteurs blew up the oil pipeline in Rashidiyeh district on the northeastern fringes of the capital, Baghdad operations command said.

A major pipeline links Baghdad and its Dora oil refinery and power station with the northern town of Baiji, another refining and power generating hub that is a key junction point on the supply network from Iraq`s northern oil fields around Kirkuk.

BDST: 1314 HRS, 29 June, 2010

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