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Photos: Bombing in Baghdad deadliest since U.S. troop withdrawal

A wounded man leaves the scene of a massive explosion outside the Foreign Ministry building in Baghdad. A series of powerful explosions in the city killed at least 86 people and wounded more than 300 on the deadliest day in the capital since U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from Iraq’s cities June 30.

A wounded man leaves the scene of a massive explosion outside the Foreign Ministry building in Baghdad. A series of powerful explosions in the city killed at least 86 people and wounded more than 300 on the deadliest day in the capital since U.S. forces completed their withdrawal from Iraq’s cities June 30.  (Khalil Al-Murshidi / AFP / Getty Images)

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In shock

An Iraqi family reacts to the bombings, which targeted government and commercial buildings.  (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press)

The aftermath

Smoke rises from ruined cars near the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.  (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press)

Devastation

Firefighters respond in an area near Iraq’s Foreign Ministry.  (Khalid Mohammed / Associated Press)

Truck bomb attack

Iraqi firefighters remove the body of a victim from the scene of a truck bomb attack near the perimeter of the heavily guarded government Green Zone in Baghdad.  (Mohammed Jalil / EPA)

Site of attack

Civilians and Iraqi police gather at the site of a truck bomb attack. The bombing ignited several cars and left a huge crater in the road outside the fortified Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where scores of employees were injured by flying glass, a witness said  (Mohammed Jalil / EPA)

Surveying the damage

An Iraqi man checks his car amid the rubble left by the explosion.  (Muhannad Fala’ah / Getty Images)

Mohammad Qassem bridge

in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Waziriyah, Iraqi police inspect the damage to the Mohammad Qassem bridge. The bombings came at a time when the insurgency appears to be making a concerted effort to undermine faith in the ability of the Iraqi army and police to sustain security.  (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP / Getty Images)

Damaged landmark

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry, amid rubble. Officials said that Wednesday’s death toll could rise as bodies are counted, and that one major hospital had closed its doors to casualties because it was swamped. Streets were sealed off across the city, bringing life in many areas to a standstill.  (Muhannad Fala’ah / Getty Images)

Blast crater

The bombing left a crater in front of Baghdad’s Foreign Ministry building.  (Muhannad Fala’ah / Getty Images)

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