MOGADISHU — Two explosions rocked a mosque on Saturday in a crowded area of Somalia’s restive capital Mogadishu, killing at least 25 people and injuring scores of others, officials said.

“The collected bodies I counted numbered 25,” Ali Muse, the head of Mogadishu’s ambulance service, told AFP.

He had earlier put the death toll at at least six, but explained that many bodies were removed by family members before he arrived there.

An official with the Shebab Islamist group had no precise death toll figure but confirmed “scores of people were killed and wounded”.

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