In brief: Search for suspects in Tunisian attack expands

SOUSSE, Tunisia – The student who massacred holidaymakers on a Tunisian beach and at a swank resort hotel acted alone during the attack but had accomplices who supported him beforehand, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.

Police were searching for more suspects after the slaughter Friday of at least 38 in Sousse, in Tunisia’s deadliest such attack. The attacker’s father and three roommates were detained and being questioned in Tunis, Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui told the Associated Press.

The attacker has been identified as Seifeddine Rezgui, a 24-year-old graduate of Tunisia’s Kairouan University, where he had been living with the other students. The attack was claimed by the radical Islamic State group.

Rescuers save 2,900 from Mediterranean

ROME – Italian coast guard ships and vessels from a multi-nation naval mission and humanitarian organizations rescued at least 2,900 migrants Sunday from 21 boats launched by smugglers from Libyan shores, authorities said.

The coast guard said the rescues in the Mediterranean were by military vessels from Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Britain as well as a boat run by humanitarian personnel.

Kuwait names Saudi as mosque bomber

KUWAIT CITY – Kuwaiti authorities on Sunday identified the suicide bomber behind an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed 27 people as a Saudi citizen who flew into the Gulf nation just hours before blowing himself up.

Police have begun making arrests in connection with Friday’s bombing, which took place at one of Kuwait’s oldest Shiite mosques during midday prayers. An affiliate of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.

The Interior Ministry named the bomber as Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Gabbaa and said he was born in 1992.

Authorities also said they arrested a 25-year-old from Kuwait identified as Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, who they say drove the car that brought the bomber to the mosque.