At least 25 dead in IS bombing in Kuwait City
Islamic State may have carried out its first attack ever in Kuwait on Friday.
According to state media at least 25 people were killed in an explosion at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City.
Two thousand people were inside the Mosque when a suicide bomber blew himself up, local media reported.
"It was obvious from the suicide bomber's body that he was young. He walked into the prayer hall during sujood (kneeling in prayer), he looked ...in his 20s, I saw him with my own eyes," Kuwaiti parliament member Khalil al-Salih told Reuters.
"The explosion was really hard. The ceiling and wall got destroyed," he added.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing via a Twitter account known to belong to it. In previous weeks the terrorist group had called for attacks during the Muslim world’s Holy month of Ramadan.
The attack was the first one to take place in the small Gulf Arab oil exporter, and followed attacks by Islamist fighters in Somalia against a base of peacekeepers.
In parallel, at least 27 persons were shot dead after two gunmen attacked a holiday resort in the Tunisian city of Sousse.
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Earlier on Friday, a man who had been decapitated was found at a French factory owned by US-based Air Products.
Read more: Man found decapitated in southeastern France in suspected Islamist attack
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspected killer had been arrested and had links with the Salafist movement, Al-Jaeera reported.
The detainee had been placed on an intelligence watch-list between 2006 and 2008.
However, US security officials went on record as saying there were no signs the attacks had been co-ordinated.
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