Blast hits Kuwait Shiite mosque causing casualties

Kuwait City: Kuwait City: An explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque in the Kuwaiti capital during the main weekly prayers on Friday causing casualties, witnesses and a security official said.

The blast hit Al-Imam al-Sadeq mosque in Kuwait City, the sources told AFP, without being able to provide an immediate toll.

"It is a suicide bombing," the official said.

Explosion blast hits mosque in #Kuwait during Friday prayers, Reports of many dead and injured pic.twitter.com/dOCu4L1YwD

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Witnesses gave a similar account, saying a suicide bomber entered the mosque during the weekly noon prayers.

The Islamic State group has claimed similar bombings targeting Shiite mosques in Saudi Arabia and Yemen in recentweeks.