PHOTOS: Four car bombings have devastating toll in Baghdad

A woman is helped out of a hospital after being wounded in a bomb attack in Baghdad today. Four car bombs went off in coordinated attacks.  (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

A relative of a person killed by a car bombing reacts at a hospital in Baghdad. It was the third major assault on Baghdad’s state institutions since August.  (Karim Kadim / Associated Press)

Iraqi firefighters work at the site of a bomb attack at Karkh Court Building in western Baghdad. Today’s blasts came barely a day after the Iraqi parliament approved a law to hold national elections and marred the day’s announcement by the Iraqi government that the national vote will be held March 6.  (Ali Abbas / EPA)

Iraqi rescue workers search the rubble at the scene of a bomb blast near the Finance Ministry in Baghdad. Four massive vehicle-borne bombs rocked Baghdad, killing 127 people, including women and students.  (Ahmad Al-Rubaye AFP / Getty Images)

An Iraqi woman cries at the site of a car bomb attack that destroyed the al-Karkh courthouse in western Baghdad.  (Ali Abbas / EPA)

Rescuers evacuate a man wounded in a bomb attack in Baghdad. Previous attacks in August and October have been blamed by government officials on both the late dictator Saddam Husssein’s Baath party and Al Qaeda in Iraq.  (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press)

Iraqi firefighters arrive at the site of a bomb blast at a courthouse west Baghdad’s Mansour district. Survivors today expressed shock. “I never felt so scared in my life. I lived through wars and served in the military, but today was so terrifying. Many people were killed and wounded. Men, women, police and children who sell things, all were killed and injured,” said Abu Haidar, a shopkeeper in the crowded Shurja district, where the finance ministry’s offices were targeted.  (Ali Al-Saadi AFP / Getty Images)

Iraqi security forces patrol near a crater caused by a bomb attack near the Labor Ministry building in Baghdad.  (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press)

Smoke billows following an explosion in Baghdad. Central Baghdad was rocked by three massive explosions in quick succession, causing large plumes of smoke to rise into the air, an AFP correspondent said.  (Ahmad Al-Rubaye AFP / Getty Images)