BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A pair of suicide bombers, wearing vests packed with explosives, detonated themselves Monday in Hilla, killing 27 people -- many of them police -- and wounding 118, police said.
One of the bombers attacked outside the governor's office where former Iraqi police commandos were protesting their dismissals for lying on job applications.
The other suicide bombing occurred about 150 feet (50 meters) away near the Babil health center where police recruits were in line for physicals.
Hilla is about 60 miles (100 km) south of the Iraqi capital.
Meanwhile, Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers in Baghdad captured a former general in Saddam Hussein's intelligence network, a U.S. military statement said.
"The man captured was part of Saddam Hussein's intelligence network and was also involved with the Fedayeen, a criminal secret police organization of the old regime," the statement said.
"He now leads the military wings of several terror cells operating in the west Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliyah."
The statement did not name the intelligence official, who was captured in raids early Sunday.
During the same raids, at least four others suspected of insurgent activities were taken into custody, according to the statement.
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