In pictures: Baghdad recruits blast

1 of 8 Central Baghdad has been hit by another bombing - this time on a busy road outside a recruitment centre for the Iraqi army.

2 of 8 Many were killed, including young men waiting to volunteer in the new Iraqi armed forces.

3 of 8 Other victims had been just passing the scene of the attack in the morning traffic.

4 of 8 Local people came to help - struggling to prise open car doors to remove the dead.

5 of 8 A car packed with artillery shells caused the blast. Unexploded ordnance was removed from the scene by troops

6 of 8 Victims near the fortified gates of the military centre were checked for any signs of life.

7 of 8 Some of the dead had to be cut from the rolls of barbed wire that make up the camp's defences.

8 of 8 Outside the nearby hospital, anguished relatives gather for news of the victims - an all-too-familiar scene of a bloody Baghdad summer.