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Nine dead in Qatar restaurant gas explosion - news agency


    DUBAI (Reuters) - Nine people were killed when gas canisters exploded in a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday, the official news agency of the Gulf Arab state reported.

    Thirty-two were wounded, three of them critically, the agency added. "The explosion that happened today at Istanbul restaurant next to a petrol station resulted in the death of nine people," the agency said, citing ambulance sources.

    (Reporting by Amena Bakr, Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Andrew Heavens)