Dried blood coats the face of an Iraqi policeman in the Al Yarmook hospital after a car bomb exploded near a police station in the Seidiyeh neighbourhood in Baghdad today. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Family members and friends wait at the Al Yarmook Hospital morgue to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones killed today when a car bomb exploded near a police station in Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
A man grieves for his son killed today when a bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
His eyes bruised and shut, a young Iraqi police officer’s head is bandaged at Al Yarmook hospital in Baghdad after a car bomb exploded near a police station. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
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Relatives of the deceased retrieve the bodies of their loved ones in the morgue at Al Yarmook hospital. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Women grieve outside the operating room at Al Yarmook Hospital where many of the wounded were taken after a car bomb exploded today near a police station in Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)
Abbas Ali kisses his dead son, Wesam, 20, an Iraqi policeman, killed when a car bomb exploded today near a police station in Baghdad. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)