In Iraq, over 300 people died on Wednesday in one of the bloodiest days of the war. The deadliest incident took place in a food market in the Shiite-dominated Sadriya neighborhood of Baghdad. A car bomb exploded in the afternoon killing over 140 people. One shopkeeper said the area had been turned into a swimming pool of blood. The bombing killed many workers who were helping to rebuild the market, which was destroyed in another blast in February. That bombing killed 137 people. Earlier in the day a suicide car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in Sadr City killed 35 people. Another parked car bomb killed at least 11 people near a hospital in the Karrada district of Baghdad. The attack on the Sadriya market was the deadliest bombing in the nine weeks since President Bush sent thousands of more U.S. troops into Iraq to secure Baghdad.