Crime slammed

The family of the Saudi suicide bomber who killed 28 people and injured more than 200 in a Kuwait mosque on Friday have distanced themselves from him, insisting they fully rejected his “distorted thinking”.

The family said they had nothing to do with the heinous crime of Fahd Sulaiman Abdul Mohsin Al Qaba’a, and renewed their pledge of allegiance to King Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, to the Crown Prince and to the Deputy Crown Prince.

“We extended our condolences to the Emir of Kuwait, to the families of the victims and to the people of Kuwait, and we wish the wounded speedy recovery,” the family said in a statement.

The family said they fully supported their country and opposed the alien ideology that did not respect religion or mosques or Ramadan.

On Sunday, Kuwait said the suicide bomber who carried out the country’s worst militant attack was Al Qaba’a, a Saudi citizen who had arrived at the airport at dawn on Friday, a few hours before he detonated explosives at Imam Al Sadeq mosque in the capital. He reportedly had no criminal record in Saudi Arabia or in Kuwait.

Kuwait said it had detained the driver who transported him to the mosque where he killed and injured worshippers. According to Kuwaiti daily

the driver, born in 1989, was staying illegally in the country and was arrested in a house owned by an extremist.

The police found in the car the traditional thobe worn by the bomber as he arrived in Kuwait and which he replaced with another thobe under which he concealed his explosives belt, the daily added.