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KUWAIT CITY, April 11 (AFP)-Unidentified assailants sprayed a Shi’ite Muslim center in a Kuwait City suburb with gunfire in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a Kuwaiti member of Parliament said. "The shooting occurred at 2 a.m. when there was no-one inside. They fired 25 shots at the glass walls but nobody was injured," said Adnan Abdel Samad, a leading Shi’ite MP. A police official, who asked not to be named, said the shots had come from a Kalashnikov submachinegun. The incident came as Shi’ites, who make up about a quarter of Kuwait's indigenous population of 800,000, were celebrating one of their most sacred festivals, the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson, the Imam Hussein, which culminates on Saturday. Abdel Samad said the shooting was a clear attempt to create strife in society and accused the perpetrators of timing their attack to coincide with the commemoration. Security forces are hunting for a white Japanese car said to have been used in the attack, but no reports of arrests have been made.
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