World Bulletin / News Desk 

Kuwait has detained the driver of the vehicle that took a suicide bomber to a mosque where he detonated explosives, killing 27 people, state news agency KUNA said on Sunday.

The interior ministry said the driver of the Japanese-made car, who left the mosque immediately after Friday's bombing, was an illegal resident called Abdul-Rahman Sabah Aidan, KUNA reported.

The interior ministry, which had earlier reported the vehicle owner's arrest, said Aidan, 26, was found hiding in one of the houses in al-Riqqa residential area.

"Initial investigations showed that the owner of the house is a supporter of the deviant thinking," the ministry said, adding that the owner of the house is a Kuwaiti citizen.