document: Egypt honored its slain parliament speaker and four security men today with a state funeral led by a grim-looking President Hosni Mubarak . The government said Iraqi agents or Egyptian Moslem fundamentalists were to blame for the assassination Friday of its second-highest official , Rifaat el-Mahgoub . He was the first Egyptian politician assassinated since Islamic extremists shot President Anwar Sadat at a military parade nine years ago . Four assassins riding two motorbikes killed el-Mahgoub in a car driving by a luxury hotel by the Nile . The death toll from the attack rose to six today with the death of the speaker 's chauffeur . Doctors in a Cairo hospital said the driver suffered bullet wounds in the stomach , back and arm . Hassan Abu-Basha , a former police minister , told the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram he believed el-Mahgoub 's slaying was the work of Iraqi agents . He said the perpetrators possibly belonged to the Palestinian extremist faction led by Abu Nidal . The funeral was at Nasr City , the same suburban neighborhood where Sadat 's funeral took place . Hundreds of red-bereted military police and white-uniformed policemen sealed off all streets leading to the mosque where the religious service was held . They also lined the funeral procession route , as did hundreds of plainclothes security men . Mubarak , wearing a black suit and sunglasses , and British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd , on a two-day official visit , were in the front row of about 1,000 mourners . They included relatives of the dead , government officials and foreign diplomats . Symbolic units from the military services spearheaded the procession , followed by a military band and two dozen wreath-bearers . Behind them were four military jeeps carrying coffins of the four security men , draped in the red , white and black Egyptian flag . A caisson bearing el-Mahgoub 's coffin followed , also wrapped in the flag . It was drawn by three pairs of black horses . Military officers rode the three horses on the right . Immediately behind came two officers carrying el-Mahgoub 's decorations laid on black-velvet cushions . The procession began from the mosque and stopped about 1,500 feet away . Relatives of the dead then lined up to accept condolences from Mubarak and other mourners . Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa had warned days earlier of such an attack . He said authorities arrested alleged saboteurs who were entering the country with orders from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to assassinate Egyptian officials . Saddam has called Egypt a traitor to the Arab cause for sending its troops to back the U.S. military buildup in the gulf in response to the Aug. 2 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait . The state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram , quoting police sources , reported Monday that local Moslem extremists were collaborating with Palestinian terrorists sent to the country by Iraq on sabotage missions . It said the extremists had provided weapons and explosives to five Palestinians from Abu Nidal 's faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization . Recent reports said Abu Nidal 's Fatah-Revolutionary Council recently moved its headquarters from Libya to Iraq . Police ordered a state of alert at airports to keep the assailants from fleeing and set up security checkpoints along Cairo bridges . El-Mahgoub 's authority extended solely over the 458-seat Parliament , which he had headed since 1984 . He was not active in the gulf crisis , Al-Ahram noted in a front-page editorial today . `` In fact he was assassinated because he was a prominent Egyptian politician . The assasins wanted to tell their terrorist bosses that they pierced the stability of Egypt , '' the newspaper said . In Washington , White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said : `` We are shocked by the assassination of the Egyptian speaker . `` We certainly deplore these kinds of terrorist activities and assassination is the most vile kind of terrorism . We do n't have any indication at this time who was responsible or what their purposes were , '' he said .
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abstractive_keyphrases: rifaat el-mahgoub