Car bomb kills Briton in Qatar

Authorities said the bombing was still under investigation, but the incident raised fears that violence attributed to Islamist militants was spreading in the oil-rich Gulf region.

"The explosion which occurred this evening was caused by a booby-trapped car. One person was killed and 12 people were slightly wounded, 10 of whom were discharged from hospital," the Qatari interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official QNA news agency.

It was the first such attack in gas-rich Qatar, which is home to the US Central Command and served as the operational base for the US-led war on Iraq in 2003, since a Chechen rebel leader was killed in a car bomb last year.