Suicide bombers target Baghdad hotels

Smoke rises hundreds of metres into the sky after an explosion Baghdad's Palestine hotel Photograph: Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Sabah Arar/guardian.co.uk People remove the body of a victim killed in a suicide car bomb attack outside the Alhamraa hotel Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/guardian.co.uk The place where the car bomb exploded outside the Alhamraa Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/guardian.co.uk Outside the Alhamraa, a man carries a wounded girl Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/guardian.co.uk Another view of the crater in the middle of the street outside the hotel Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/guardian.co.uk A cloud of dust veils the Ishtar Sheraton hotel after the attack there Photograph: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters Photograph: Mohammed Ameen/guardian.co.uk Security forces inspect the crater the blast left outside the Sheraton Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/guardian.co.uk A wounded man makes his way to hospital Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP Photograph: Karim Kadim/guardian.co.uk