Kuwait executed five people today including a man convicted of involvement in a 2015 Islamic State group suicide bombing that killed 26 people. The Public Prosecutor oversaw the implementation of the death sentence in Kuwait's Central Prison against five people, most of them accused of murder. The multiple executions in the Gulf emirate are the first since seven people were put to death in November last year.

Those put to death today include Abdulrahman Sabah Saud, the main convict in the 2015 bombing that struck a Shiite mosque. The other men executed included a Kuwaiti, an Egyptian, and a member of Kuwait's stateless Bidoon minority, all of whom had been convicted of murder. A Sri Lankan was put to death on drug charges.