A day of mourning was declared in Kuwait on Saturday following the attack on the Imam Sadiq mosque in the district of Sawaber, in the eastern part of Kuwait City.
Police said they were questioning a number of suspects with possible links to the suicide bombing.
The owner of the car that drove the bomber has been arrested and a search is under way for the driver, Kuwait’s state news agency reported on Saturday.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was Kuwait’s worst attack in years and the first on a Shia mosque.
However thousands of people in Kuwait took part in a mass funeral
procession for the 27 people killed in the suicide bombing.
