 A Saudi national has been killed in a gunbattle with Kuwaiti security forces.
"A wanted man was killed. He was a Saudi," Kuwait's interior minister, Shaikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, told reporters outside a house stormed by security forces in Umm Al-Haiman, south of Kuwait City. It was the first time a Saudi was identified as having been involved in such an incident in Kuwait.
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"We arrested another (wanted militant)... and the rest fled," the minister said after the clashes, which erupted when security forces hunted down suspected fighters. "The man killed carried a Saudi passport, while the one arrested is a Kuwaiti citizen," Shaikh Nawaf said. "Those who fled do not number more than six," the minister said. The incident follows a clash last Monday in a Kuwait city suburb between Islamists and state security forces in which two members of state security and one gunman were killed. |