He said other suspects, including fighters with Islamic State overseas, have been identified and that some of their relatives inside Kuwait have been charged in connection with the blast.
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“As result of the shooting, two security personnel were injured and rushed to hospital”, the ministry said.
In late June, a Saudi man blew himself up inside the Kuwait City mosque, killing 27 worshippers and wounding more than 200.
The arrests were made in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia after a joint investigation by security authorities in both the countries linked the three brothers “with the parties to the terrorist crime”, Saudi Press Agency reported citing an interior ministry spokesperson. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt at the Al-Anoud mosque in and killed four people.
Kuwaiti police cordon off the mosque after the suicide bombing.
One brother was arrested in Kuwait and was extradited to Saudi Arabia, another was arrested in the city of Taif in the west of the kingdom and the third was held after a gunfight at a house near the Kuwaiti border in which two Saudi policemen were wounded, according to the SPA report.
“Two of them were born in Kuwait and they have ties to a fourth sibling who is present in Syria as part of Daesh”, the Saudi ministry said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.
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The attack has raised concerns about the number of young Saudi men willing to travel to attack Shiites in smaller Gulf Arab states and so make good on a threat by ISIS to step up violence in the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
