(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Kuwaiti police arrested a driver who transported a suicide bomber to a mosque where he blew himself up, killing 26 and injuring 227 people, the interior ministry said Sunday.
Authorities have also detained the owner of the house used as a hideout by the bomber, a Kuwaiti national who subscribes to "extremist and deviant ideology", the ministry said in a statement.
The suicide attack, the first bombing of a mosque in the country, was claimed by Daesh.
The driver, named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, was described as an "illegal resident" born in 1989, who took the bomber to the Al Imam Al Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City on Friday, Gulf News said.
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