A suicide car bomber has killed 19 police officers and cadets in an attack on a crowd outside a Baghdad police academy.
The car exploded as it crashed into a crowd of cadets whom police had just escorted out of the compound and were standing in the street outside.
Police and hospital sources said 14 cadets and five police were killed, and 26 people were wounded.
All except two of the wounded were police or cadets.
"I can see body parts scattered on the ground and boots and berets covered with blood. Many cars were set ablaze," said a policeman working at the academy on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad.
The attack is the deadliest since 27 January, when a suicide bomber attacked a Shia funeral procession in Baghdad, killing at least 31 and wounding 60.
