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Image used for illustrative purposes only. Workers install a security camera at the Al A'ali Grand Mosque, where joint Sunni and Shi'ites prayers are to be held to show solidarity and co-existence between the two sects of Islam, ahead of Friday prayers in Al A'ali south of Manama, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed - GF10000147461
Kuwait's interior ministry on Thursday foiled a plan by a militant cell to attack Shi'ite Muslim places of worship, state news agency (KUNA) reported.
Security personnel monitored the cell's movements and arrested three people described as members of a terrorist organisation, KUNA said. The three were Arabs, it added without going into more detail.
In 2015, Kuwait, home to several U.S. military bases, suffered its deadliest militant attack in decades when a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up inside a packed Shi'ite mosque, killing 27 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility.
(Reporting by Yomna Ehab and Enas Alashray; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Andrew Heavens)
