Gunmen kill 2 in Kuwait, US issues warning

Gunmen killed two state security personnel pursuing them in Kuwait City on Monday, the Interior Ministry and security sources said.Security ...

Gunmen killed two state security personnel pursuing them in Kuwait City on Monday, the Interior Ministry and security sources said.

Security sources said one of the suspects, a wanted Kuwaiti man identified as Fawaz al-Otaibi, died later in hospital of his wounds. Two state security officers were wounded in the shootout.

Shortly before the incident, the US embassy in Kuwait warned that it had information of imminent drive-by attacks on Westerners in the US-allied Gulf Arab state.

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In an advisory, the US embassy said it was issuing ‘‘this urgent message because it has received credible information that an individual or individuals moving about Kuwait in a black-colored small sedan intend to randomly attack Westerners’’. A US embassy security official said the car was the one used by Otaibi and his accomplices.

The Interior Ministry said a first lieutenant and a sergeant had been killed and two other security personnel wounded in the exchange of fire with Otaibi as they pursued him in the Hawalli suburb of Kuwait City. Sources said Otaibi had been returning a car to a rental company when state security personnel decided to arrest him.

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