KUWAIT CITY: 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.
The driver had been hiding in a house in the Al Rigga area in the city's southern Al Ahmadi Governorate.
Authorities on Saturday arrested the owner of the car, Jarrah Nimr Mejbil Ghazi, born 1988, and also listed as a stateless person.
Although Daesh named the perpetrator, authorities have so far been unable to identify him from remains found at the scene, Al Anbaa daily reported.
Authorities will "continue efforts to uncover the conspirators in this criminal act and to reveal all of the information and circumstances behind it", the interior ministry said.
