A suicide bomber killed 25 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, the interior ministry said, the first attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting country.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, which also wounded 202 people according to the interior ministry, in the district of Sawaber in the eastern part of the Kuwaiti capital.
Security forces quickly sealed off the perimeter of the mosque while rescue workers carried the wounded to hospital.
Also on Friday, a gunman killed 28 people including foreign tourists in a beach resort in Tunisia. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but Islamist militants have previously targeted tourist sites in Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa.
Reuters, 26 June 2015