IN PHOTO: A woman grieves next to coffins of victims of Friday's bombing at the Imam Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, at the international airport in Najaf, south of Baghdad, June 27, 2015.
IN PHOTO: A woman grieves next to coffins of victims of Friday's bombing at the Imam Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, at the international airport in Najaf, south of Baghdad, June 27, 2015. The attack, which killed 27 and injured more than 200 at the mosque, was claimed by Islamic State's Wilayat of Najd division. REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani

The bomber responsible for bombing a Shia mosque in Kuwait was identified as a Saudi citizen by Kuwait authorities. The Interior Ministry revealed the name of the attacker as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen Al-Gabbaa.

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS claimed the responsibility of the bombing and identified the name of the attacker as Abu Sulieman al Muwahid, which is probably an alias. The bombing occurred at the Al-Sadiq mosque during Friday prayers, a time when many worshippers were inside the mosque.

The country’s state-run Kuwait News Agency reports on Sunday that Kuwaiti police arrested the man who drove the bomber to the mosque. Police identified the driver as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, who has been reported as an "illegal resident" born in 1989.

Aside from the driver, police also arrested the driver's landlord, whom who they believed was the "bearer of fundamentalist and deviant ideology." Al Jazeera reports there were 27 people who were left dead after the attack. Al-Gabbaa arrived in Kuwait City on Friday, which was the same day of the attack.

On Sunday, Saudi’s Ministry of Interior revealed the result of the background check of the suspect. Al-Gabbaa was born in 1992, but had no prior links to terrorism. Authorities added the suspect left Riyadh on Thursday to travel to Manama, Bahrain, aboard Gulf Air flight 170, saying that the suspect had never flown before.

Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom, who was reporting from Kuwait City said, "The driver and the owner of the vehicle that had been used in that horrific mosque attack on Friday were arrested within hours of the bombing. Police have said that several suspects have also been detained and are being questioned."

Meanwhile, on the same day of attack occurred in Kuwait, a beach in Tunisia was attacked by three gunmen, which left 38 dead. Survivor Chris Callaghan was one of least of the 39 people injured when a gunman opened fire at the beachfront of Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba in the coastal city of Sousse. She told CNN she couldn’t believe the terrible events she had experienced on Friday.

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