<p>A suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait was a Saudi national, the interior ministry said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a statement carried by the official KUNA news agency, the ministry identified the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a.<br /><br />The ministry said that Qaba'a entered the country through Kuwait Airport at dawn on Friday, the same day of the bombing.<br /><br />IS claimed the attack, which killed 26 and wounded 227 worshippers at the Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City.<br /><br />The ministry statement provided no further details about the bomber.<br /><br />Earlier today, the ministry said that security services arrested the driver of the car that transported the bomber to the site of the attack.<br /><br />Authorities have also detained the owner of the house where the bomber was staying. He was described by the interior ministry as a Kuwaiti national who subscribes to "extremist and deviant ideology".<br /><br />The driver, named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, was described as an "illegal resident" born in 1989.<br /><br />Authorities yesterday arrested the owner of the car, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born in 1988, and also listed as a stateless person. </p>
<p>A suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait was a Saudi national, the interior ministry said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>In a statement carried by the official KUNA news agency, the ministry identified the attacker as Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a.<br /><br />The ministry said that Qaba'a entered the country through Kuwait Airport at dawn on Friday, the same day of the bombing.<br /><br />IS claimed the attack, which killed 26 and wounded 227 worshippers at the Al-Imam Al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City.<br /><br />The ministry statement provided no further details about the bomber.<br /><br />Earlier today, the ministry said that security services arrested the driver of the car that transported the bomber to the site of the attack.<br /><br />Authorities have also detained the owner of the house where the bomber was staying. He was described by the interior ministry as a Kuwaiti national who subscribes to "extremist and deviant ideology".<br /><br />The driver, named as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, was described as an "illegal resident" born in 1989.<br /><br />Authorities yesterday arrested the owner of the car, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born in 1988, and also listed as a stateless person. </p>