KUWAIT CITY: A suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shiite Muslim mosque in Kuwait cityduring Friday prayers, the Interior Ministry said, the first attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting country.
Extremist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded 220 people according to the Interior Ministry, in the district of Sawaber in the eastern part of the Kuwaiti capital.
Parliament member Khalil al-Salih, who was at the mosque when the attack occurred, said worshippers were kneeling in prayer when the bomber walked into the Imam al-Sadeq Mosque and detonated his explosives, destroying walls and the ceiling.