Manama: Three members of a gang who killed two Indian guards in a rare armed robbery in Kuwait have been arrested.
The gang leader, a 21-year-old stateless man, was apprehended, one day after his two accomplices, a Syrian national, 18, and another stateless man, 20, were arrested by the police.
Two of them were involved in the murder of two security staff last month. The victims have been identified in local media as 55-year-old Sharangdharan, from Kozhikode district of Kerala, who was shot in the chest and killed on the spot, and Mohammad Rashid Jamalullali Thangal, 25, from Malappuram district of Kerala, who was hit in the head and died afterwards at Farwaniya Hospital.
The two guards were reportedly walking towards their security van after collecting KD13,000 in cash from a supermarket near the Sulaibiya vegetable market to be deposited in a bank when they were violently attacked by the two assailants who fired at them at close range, took the money and fled in a stolen getaway car. The third accomplice hid the share of one of the suspects, the Kuwaiti interior ministry said as it announced on Sunday the arrest of the three gang members.
The suspects told investigators that they had set the car ablaze in the Sulaibiya area to avoid leaving any trace or evidence that could lead to their arrest.
The main suspect also informed the police about the place where he had hidden the Kalashnikov rifle used to kill the two security guards. The police found it in the back of his house buried in a hole that was more than two metres deep, local daily Al Qabas reported on Monday.
According to the daily, the suspect attributed the armed robbery to the need for funds, arguing that he was unemployed and that he was in charge of looking after the family following the death of his father.
