Kuwait mosque attack: suicide bomber identified as a Saudi citizen

PHOTO: Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a

Kuwaiti authorities have identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shia mosque that killed 27 people as a Saudi citizen who arrived in the country just hours before he blew himself up.

The interior ministry named the bomber as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen al- Gabbaa and said he was born in 1992. It said in a statement carried by the official

Kuwait News Agency that he arrived on a flight to Kuwait International airport at dawn on Friday.

More than 200 people were injured

Kuwaiti officials said the Saudi suspect was in Kuwait illegally.

Several people have been arrested in connection with the attack - including both the owner and driver of the car in which the bomber arrived at the mosque.

They have also arrested the owner of a house which the bomber is said to have visited - the interior ministry saying initial investigations showed he was a supporter of "extremist and deviant ideology".