Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — A Saudi citizen and a Kuwaiti national, who went missing recently in the Iraqi governorate of Anbar, have been found dead, according to Kuwait’s foreign ministry sources.

“Two bodies found by Iraqi authorities are believed to be those of a missing Kuwaiti and his Saudi companion who had disappeared in the western Anbar province,” the foreign ministry said in a statement, quoted by the Kuwait state news agency KUNA.

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said that Iraqi authorities have found the bodies of a Kuwaiti and a Saudi national residing in Kuwait who went missing while on a hunting trip in a desert area of Iraq. He said that the ministry followed the case around the clock with the Iraqi authorities, who made great efforts to locate bodies of the disappeared persons.

The minister said that he instructed the Kuwaiti embassy in Baghdad to follow up the case and complete the necessary procedures in this regard, praising the Iraqi efforts to reveal the fate of the deceased within a short period of time. “Coordination is underway with the Iraqi authorities to find out the circumstances leading to the death of the citizens and sharing the results of the ongoing investigations,” he said while expressing his pain and sadness at this horrific news. The minister also offered his sincere condolences to the bereaved families of the deceased Saudi and Kuwait citizens.