Kuwait’s interior ministry said the suicide bomber who attacked a Shia mosque Friday was in the country illegally and had flown in just hours before the deadly attack that killed at least 27 and injured 202 people.
The interior ministry said the bomber’s name is Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba’a, according to state media, and reported by the BBC. Two hundred and two people were injured in Friday’s bombing at Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City — the bloodiest attack on the country’s Shia minority in recent history.
The Islamic State took credit for the attack and celebrated Friday’s attacks in Tunisia, France and Syria on the one-year anniversary of their “caliphate.” The extremist Sunni group views the Shias gathered to pray at the Kuwait mosque as heretics.
Last month the Islamic State carried out successive Friday bombings on Kuwait’s Shia mosques, driving home the growing extremist threat, says BBC’s Sebastian Usher.
