Scores killed as car bombs rip through Baghdad square

Two car bombs exploded in a main square of central Baghdad today, killing at least 54 people and injuring 146.

The carefully co-ordinated attack in Tayaran Square at 7am local time involved a bomb in a parked car and a suicide car bomb, both of which exploded simultaneously near a police patrol and a crowd of Iraqis gathering to apply for work as day labourers, said police Lt Bilal Ali.