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Page last updated at 14:49 GMT, Friday, 24 April 2009 15:49 UK

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In pictures: Baghdad blasts

Scene of the suicide bombing

Two suicide bombings have killed 60 people outside a Shia shrine in Baghdad, a day after Iraq was rocked by the most deadly violence in a year. (Warning: Some images may be disturbing)

A man injured in a suicide bombing gets treatment in the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad

Officials say another 125 people were injured in the blasts, detonated at separate gates to the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine as worshippers arrived for Friday prayers.

Iman Khalaf sleeps as her grandmother cries in the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad

Iman Khalaf's grandmother found her safe and well at a hospital in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Kadhimiya, covered by a prayer mat to keep warm. Her parents are missing.

A relative of a victim of a suicide bombing reacts outside the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad

In a scene all too familiar in Iraq, relatives of the dead were left to mourn for their loved ones.

Relatives of Muiessar Anam, a victim of a suicide bombing, carry his coffin during his funeral in Baghdad

Others, meanwhile, were burying the dead from Thursday's attacks, when 84 people died in two separate suicide attacks in Baghdad and Baquba.

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