KUWAIT CITY (Reuters) - A preacher at Kuwait's Saud al-Rashed mosque stopped Friday sermons after he was surprised by skirmishes and clashes that turned into a fight between worshipers at the mosque during a live broadcast on Kuwaiti satellite television.

The local "Majlis" account posted on his Twitter page a video of the incident, saying: "A fool claimed to be the Mahdi who interrupted the prayer hysterically, but was quickly taken over by worshipers and policemen in the mosque and was referred. For psychiatry. "

The video showed the preacher Issa Al-Dhafiri during his sermon, which was broadcast live on state television, suddenly silent from the talk after the escalating voices among the worshipers and entangled some hands.