The Kuwaiti citizen has been arrested and the incident is under investigation.

Two expats were wounded in a shooting by a Kuwaiti citizen at Salmiya area in Hawally Governorate on Sunday, the Ministry of Interior said, according to KUNA, Kuwait’s official news agency.

Initial investigations showed that the citizen claimed that he had by mistake shot two expats from a gun owned by a friend of his, the ministry’s public relations department said in a statement.

The Kuwaiti citizen had been arrested and the incident was under investigations, it added.

Local news reports said that the two expats were an Egyptian, who was seriousely wounded, and a Syrian who was shot in his feet.

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