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Seven sentenced to death over Kuwait mosque bombing

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Court sentences seven suspects over suicide attack that killed at least 26 people during Ramadan, state media reports.

Kuwaiti police cordon off the mosque after the suicide bombing. (AFP/File)

Kuwaiti police cordon off the mosque after the suicide bombing. (AFP/File)

by Al Jazeera

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced seven suspects to death over the Imam al-Sadiq Mosque bombing, which killed at least 26 people and injured more than 200 others, the country’s state news agency reported.

Kuwait’s criminal court on Tuesday sentenced eight others to two and 15 years behind bars and acquitted 14 others, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said.

The court heard statements from the defence lawyers and later charged the defendants with using explosives with the intention of “killing, spreading terror, committing murders, joining an internationally banned group that promotes toppling the ruling system with illegitimate means and threatening the country’s unity”, KUNA reported.

The Imam al-Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City was attacked by a Saudi suicide bomber on June 26 during Friday prayers in the holy month of Ramadan.

Kuwait launched a security crackdown on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after the attack was claimed by the group.

Saudi authorities arrest two over Kuwaiti mosque bombing

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Kuwaiti police cordon off the mosque after the suicide bombing. (AFP/File)

Kuwaiti police cordon off the mosque after the suicide bombing. (AFP/File)

by Press TV

Saudi security forces have reportedly identified three Saudi brothers suspected of orchestrating the recent bomb attack at a Shia mosque in Kuwait, arresting two of them.

Spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry Major General Mansour al-Turki announced on Tuesday morning that the three suspects had been detained following close cooperation and exchange of information between law enforcement authorities in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

He added that two of the brothers were born in Kuwait, while the third was born in Saudi Arabia. A fourth brother has also joined the ranks of Daesh operating in Syria.

Turki further said that one of the brothers was recently captured in Kuwait, and will be handed over to Saudi security officials within the next few days.

Saudi forces captured the second suspect in the city of Taif in Mecca Province, while the third was arrested following an exchange of gunfire with Saudi troopers in the town of Ras al-Khafji on the border between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

On June 26, at least 27 people lost their lives and 227 others sustained injuries when an explosion ripped through Imam Sadiq (PBUH) Mosque in al-Sawabir, a busy residential and shopping district of Kuwait City.

A bomber reportedly blew himself up in the mosque where worshippers had gathered for Friday prayers.

Later in the day, Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack. Daesh had also carried out two bomb attacks at Shia mosques in eastern Saudi Arabia a month earlier.

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