A gas explosion at a shopping mall in Taiwan on Thursday killed at least five people and injured several others, according to authorities.

A suspected gas explosion at a department store in Taiwan's central city of Taichung killed at least four people and injured 26 on Thursday, among them tourists from the gambling hub of Macau, fire officials said.

In what appears to be a construction-related accident, an explosion at a mall in Taiwan killed four people an injured dozens including tourist, local officials reported Thursday. The cause of the blast which took place in Taichung,