Manama: Kuwait’s public prosecution on Tuesday referred 29 people, including seven women, to the criminal court on charges of attacking Imam Al Sadiq Mosque in the capital Kuwait City on June 26.
The prosecution said in a statement that it had finished the investigations into the attack, and that seven Kuwaitis, five Saudis, three Pakistanis, 13 illegal residents and a fugitive whose nationality has not been known yet were accused of targeting the mosque, Kuwait News Agency (Kuna) reported. The women are relatives of some of the suspects.
Two of the defendants are facing charges of the premeditated murder of 26 people, the attempted murder of the injured and possession of explosives inside the mosque, the statement said. Two other defendants are charged with training on using explosives for illegal purposes, it added.
Seven defendants are accused of incitement to commit the crime, while others are charged with joining a banned group that adopts extremist ideologies which runs counter to the state institutions.
The prosecution said that 24 suspects were detained in Kuwait while the other five, including two who were held in Saudi Arabia, are out of the country. The Saudi brothers reportedly carried the explosives across the border into Kuwait.
The bomber, Fahad Sulaiman Abdul Mohsen Al Gabbaa, arrived on a flight to Kuwait airport at dawn on Friday and blew himself up hours later inside the mosque during the prayers, killing 26 worshippers and injuring 227 others.
The attack, masterminded by Daesh terror group, was the third against a Shiite mosque since May 22. The other two attacks targeted mosques in Saudi Arabia. More than 50 people were killed in the deadly bombings.
