JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- A huge explosion rocked a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Taba neighboring Israel late Thursday, causing casualties, Israeli radio reported.

   It was apparently caused by a gas leak, said the report, addingthat a large number of people were wounded in the blast and many of them were being evacuated to an Israeli hospital in Eilat neighboring Taba.

   However, one woman wounded in the blast told the radio reporter in the Eilat hospital said it was caused by two suicide bombers.

   "The hotel is on fire on the eastern side, the entry point, the lobby. People are trying to get out," said witnesses.

   Taba is an Egyptian border town closely neighboring Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat.  Enditem