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BAGHDAD (Iraq): At least 35 people were killed and another 125 wounded when a car bomb exploded at the gates of a recruitment centre for the new Iraqi army in Baghdad Thursday morning, medical officials said.

The casualty toll at three local hospitals kept fluctuating as ambulances and police trucks brought in the casualties, many of them badly mutilated by the force of the blast. The hospital officials feared rise in the death toll as many of the injured, were barely clinging to life.

The car bomb left body parts strewn across the street outside the recruitment centre as young men queued to sign up for the army.

The building also serves as a hiring centre for the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, the country's fledgling paramilitary unit. The military recruitment center was earlier targeted by suicide bombing in February, in which 47 people were died.

Meanwhile the US military confirmed there had been a suspected car bomb blast at about 9:00 am in the centre of Baghdad.

Suicide bomber behind Blast: Police

A suicide bomber carried out Thursday morning's Baghdad car bombing that killed at least 35 people and wounded 127, an Iraqi police officer said, adding that police had recovered the attacker's hands still attached to the vehicle's steering wheel.