News & Photos: Blast in Istanbul Restaurant in Doha, Qatar, leaves 12 dead, over 30 injured

An explosion in the Istanbul Restaurant near the Landmark Mall shopping center in the Qatari capital Doha has left 12 people dead and has injured at least 30 - four persons died on the spot and the remaining succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital.
The food joint had recently opened after renovations and is situated on a row of restaurants that get particularly busy late at night.
The dead were all of Asian or Arab descent and, as revealed by the head of Qatar's police force Maj Gen Saad al-Khulaifi, some of the injured were seriously hurt.
The authorities are treating this as an isolated incident because Qatar is a small, wealthy Gulf Arab state with abundant reserves of natural gas and little violent crime or civil unrest.
There are doubts that the explosion could have happened from the bursting of a natural gas tank placed on top of the Turkish restaurant.
Incidentally, in May 2012 a fire in the Villaggio Mall had killed 19 people (13 of them children who were in a daycare center inside) and investigation revealed that the fault lay in the electrical wiring - five persons have been jailed for this.