A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad today as hundreds of worshippers gathered for prayers ahead of the breaking of the fast on the first day of Ramadan, killing at least 22 people and wounding 77, police and hospital officials said.

A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad as worshippers gathered for prayers ahead of the end of the day’s Ramadan fast today, killing at least 10 people and wounding 40, police and hospital officials said.

NEW suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in the Baghdad area yesterday, while relatives struggled to identify charred bodies from a fiery suicide attack near a Shi’ite mosque in Musayyib that killed more than 90 people.

A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body today at a gas station near a Shiite mosque south of Baghdad, triggering a huge explosion in a fuel tanker and killing at least 54 people and injuring 82, police said.