A drug trafficker from Sri Lanka and a prisoner convicted in connection with the 2015 bombing of a Shiite mosque that killed 27 people and was claimed by the Islamic State group were among the five convicts executed by Kuwait on Thursday, according to international media.
According to a statement from Kuwait’s Public Prosecution, the prisoners were hung at the Central Prison. The five, according to the prosecution, comprise the mosque attacker, three murderers, and a former drug dealer.
According to the AP, the drug dealer who was found guilty was from Sri Lanka, one of the murders was Egyptian, another was Kuwaiti.
The statement just stated that the third killer and the mosque attacker were in Kuwait illegally and did not specify their nationalities.
