Kuwait smashes terror cell

Kuwaiti security forces completely crushed a terrorist cell in the gunbattle on Monday in Mubarak Al-Kabeer residential area, south of Kuwait City, reports Xinhua quoting a Kuwaiti Interior Ministry spokesman.

Lieutenant Colonel Adel Al-Hashas said four terrorists were killed and three others wounded while another three including the leader of the terrorist cell Amer Khulaif Al-Enezi

surrendered to Kuwaiti security forces, according to the Kuwait News Agency.

One Kuwaiti civilian was killed and five security men were wounded, one of them in critical condition, in the shootout which started early Monday morning, the report said.

The raids followed clashes in the Kuwaiti capital which left at least three people dead, as a government crackdown on Islamic militants intensified.