IS claims deadly blast at Shi'ite mosque in Kuwait’s capital

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that struck a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital after Friday prayers. A posting on a Twitter account known to belong to the Islamic State group said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt. The attack was claimed by an IS affiliate calling itself the Najd Province, the same group that claimed a pair of bombing attacks on Shi'ite mosques in Saudi Arabia in recent weeks.

We couldn’t see anything, so we went straight to the wounded and tried to carry them out. We left the dead.

Witness Hassan al-Haddad

Friday’s explosion struck the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the neighborhood of al-Sawabir, a residential and shopping district of Kuwait City. Paramedics on the scene said at least two people were killed, but the death toll was expected to rise. One eyewitness told The Associated Press that he saw at least 10 dead bodies. AFP reported that 13 people has been killed and eight injured.

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