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

People remove the body of a victim killed in a suicide car bomb attack outside the Alhamraa hotel
Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA

The place where the car bomb exploded outside the Alhamraa
Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA

Outside the Alhamraa, a man carries a wounded girl
Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA

Another view of the crater in the middle of the street outside the hotel
Photograph: Mohammed Jalil/EPA

A cloud of dust veils the Ishtar Sheraton hotel after the attack there
Photograph: Mohammed Ameen/Reuters

Security forces inspect the crater the blast left outside the Sheraton
Photograph: Ali al-Saadi/AFP/Getty Images

A wounded man makes his way to hospital
Photograph: Karim Kadim/AP