In pictures: Jerusalem bomb blasts

Two powerful car bomb blasts rocked the centre of Jerusalem ahead of the US envoy's attempts to broker a Middle East ceasefire - the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli soil.

A car blazes after the first explosion on Saturday night

Debris is strewn across a wide area

One of those wounded on Sunday morning is carried to a waiting ambulance

The burnt out remains one of the cars caught up in the blasts

Israeli security forces rush towards the scene of a second car bomb

A robot picks up a mortar shell near the scene of Sunday's bombing

Worried residents watch the clear-up operation in central Jerusalem