Kuwait authorities seized a huge arms cache smuggled from Iraq and hidden beneath houses near the border, arresting three suspected members of a militant cell that was plotting to destabilise the country, local media said.
A total of 19,000 kg of ammunition, 144 kg of explosives, 68 weapons and 204 grenades were seized from three properties in the Al-Abdali area, state news agency Kuna said.
The three men arrested were the owners of the houses, it said.
Kuwait’s Arabic-language Al-Anba newspaper said the cache had been smuggled from Iraq and stored by members of a cell linked to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.
“This plot by elements linked to Hezbollah had been under surveillance for a long time,” the newspaper reported.
“The suspects confessed to belonging to a terrorist organisation and … guided security forces to the places where the weapons were hidden,” Kuna quoted the ministry as saying, adding that the investigation was continuing to capture their accomplices.
Meanwhile, Deputy National Assembly Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainij lauded the Ministry of Interior’s efforts in arresting a terrorist cell that possessed a huge arsenal of weapons, explosives and ammunitions, Kuna reported.
In a press statement on Friday, Al-Khurainij urged to prosecute the suspects as soon as possible and to find out who was behind this pre-planned operation that aimed at jeopardizing the security of the country.
He called on all Kuwaiti societal sectors to be united to face this imminent danger that lives within the fabric of the society.
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