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Police say Cooking gas cylinder blast kills 8 in Mumbai

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Mother of a victim of a fire is comforted by people outside a hospital in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Police say a cooking gas cylinder blast has killed less than a dozen people in a small hotel in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) (The Associated Press)

An Indian official inspects the site of a fire at a restaurant in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Police say a cooking gas cylinder blast has killed less than a dozen people in a small hotel in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) (The Associated Press)

Parents of a victim of a fire wail as they sit outside a hospital in Mumbai, India, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Police say a cooking gas cylinder blast has killed less than a dozen people in a small hotel in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) (The Associated Press)

A cooking gas cylinder blast killed at least eight people on Friday in a small hotel in Mumbai, police said.

Police officer Ramesh Dasal said the blast occurred in the Kurla West area of India's financial and entertainment capital.

Details were not immediately known and police were investigating.