Fire opened in Kuwait against an empty Huseineyeh
Kuwait, Local, 4/13/2000

In an attack, the second in less than one week linked to religious intentions, unidentified persons on Tuesday at dawn opened their fire on a Husseineyeh (a religious place dedicated to the prophet's grandson, al-Hussein) for the Shiites in Kuwait. No human casualties were reported.

Kuwaiti Shiite member of parliament Adnan Abdul Samad stated that "shooting took place at 2 a.m. at dawn on a Shiite Huseineyah, but nobody was inside it at that time." He added, "They fired 25 bullets on the glass fronts, but nobody was wounded.

Meanwhile, an official at the Kuwaiti police, asked not to be identified said that the " attackers opened fire from Russian-made Klashinkov machine-gun, refusing to hold any body responsible for this incident.

Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, stated that the men who attacked a female Kuwaiti student last week because she was not wearing the veil are not members of any Islamic society in the country.

In a statement to reporters following a parliamentary session, the Kuwaiti foreign minister added that the attackers "are individuals who have no links to the Islamic societies inside or outside Kuwait."

Unidentified men last week attacked a university student at Kuwait University. They had beaten her and cut her hair short because she was not wearing a scarf. The attack resulted in breaking the hand of this student.

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