KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has offered to provide medical treatment to the hundreds of people wounded in deadly Baghdad bombings last week, State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Roudhan al-Roudhan said on Thursday.

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah instructed the government to bring the casualties to Kuwait for treatment as "a contribution by Kuwait to alleviating the suffering of our Iraqi brothers," he said while talkingto a local news agency.

At least 95 people were killed and almost 600 wounded by two massive truck bombings outside the finance and foreign ministries in Baghdad on August 19 in the country's deadliest day of violence in 18 months. LINK