The explosion tore through a restaurant attached to a mall in Doha, Qatar Television said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was accidental.
Qatar Television said nine people perished in the blast, updating an earlier toll, and that 32 people were injured, three of them critically.
Footage showed paramedics carrying a covered body past rubble strewn some 50 metres away from the building, whose roof had caved in.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed several damaged cars.
Nineteen people were killed in a May 2012 blaze at a major Doha mall, including 13 children and four supervisors at a nursery located within the shopping centre.
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