Kuwait has detained seven suspected Islamic militants for questioning about last month's bloody clashes with police, security sources say. The Kuwaiti, Saudi and stateless Arab men were seized late on Sunday in continuing police raids in the oil-rich Gulf Arab state rocked by a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence in January, the sources said on Monday. Three security men and seven Islamists were killed in the four shootouts and scores of suspects were arrested.Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf denied allegations of torture raised after Amer al-Enezi, a leading militant, died in custody last week. Sheikh Nawaf told state news agency KUNA that "official medical reports are clear; why would the suspect be tortured ... if he confessed to everything he was charged with after he surrendered to security men?"
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