A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque packed with worshippers celebrating a major Muslim holiday yesterday, and a suicide driver blew up an ambulance at the wedding of a Shiite couple south of the capital.

A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killing at least 14 people and wounding 40 today in the latest violence in the lead-up to next weekend’s elections.

A car bomb exploded outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad today, killing at least 13 people and wounding 40, police and hospital officials said.