The death toll from a blaze at an under-renovation entertainment club in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh has risen to eight, a police spokesperson said on Sunday.

The victims, who died of suffocation, were renovation workers, Phnom Penh Municipal Police spokesperson San Sok Seiha told Xinhua.

The blaze broke out on Saturday evening on the fifth floor of the nightclub in the capital's Tuol Kork district when the victims were renovating interior parts of the building, Seiha said.

(With input from Xinhua)