BAGHDAD - At least 13 people were killed in attacks across Iraq on Monday as insurgents continued to target civilians and police in the country`s chaotic capital.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle outside a police headquarters in a western district, killing five people and wounding 12, a security official said.
The Iraqi police have come under heavy fire in recent months as they have struggled to clamp down on the city`s daily mayhem as part of a 10-week-old security plan.
Elsewhere in the capital, a former brigadier general in Saddam Hussein`s army was shot dead in the volatile Dura neighborhood, and three civilians were killed in two separate roadside bombings.
The two blasts left 10 people wounded, security and medical sources said.
The bodies of another three people killed in a gunfight in the capital were brought to Al-Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad, the hospital said.
Authorities found six corpses, two of them decapitated, in an area north of the southern city of Kut.
In the northern city of Mosul, authorities arrested 61 suspected militants following an overnight shootout at a police station.
"A number of gunmen attacked Al-Waqqas police station in western Mosul prompting the police to counterattack and kill four gunmen," said police Colonel Mohammed al-Waggaa.
A remotely detonated car bomb exploded near some reinforcements who were racing to the scene, killing one policeman and wounding two.
Authorities detained an additional 77 suspected militants in other parts of the country on Monday.
04/30/2007 11:16 GMT