DOHA, March 19: An explosion at a small theatre near a British school in the Qatar capital Doha on Saturday wounded six people attending a play. “There was an explosion in the cafeteria inside the theatre building. Six people, Arabs and foreigners, were slightly wounded and are being treated in hospital,” Brigadier General Ahmad al Hayki of the Qatari interior ministry said. —Reuters
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