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Death toll in Sadat assassination rises

CAIRO, Egypt -- The death of presidential photographer Mohammed Rashwan raised to six the number of those killed in addition to President Anwar Sadat during Tuesday's military parade. Thirty-eight others were wounded.

The dead included:

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-Bishop Samuel of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, a member of a five-man council running church affairs following the dismissal by Sadat of Pope Shenudah III.

-Maj. Gen. Hassan Allam, Sadat's chief aide-de-camp.

-Samir Hilmi, director of the government's accounts department.

-Lt. Col. Khalfan bin Nasser, an army officer from the Persian Gulf state of Oman.

-Mohammed Rashwan, the presidential photographer.

-A foreigner, who has not been identified.

Officials said 38 others were wounded, including:

-Cuban Ambassador Domingo Garcia Rodriguez, who flew home Wednesday.

-Belgian Ambassador Claude Ruelle, who was to fly back to Brussels today.

-Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, who appeared in parliament Wednesday in bandages.

-Fawzi Abdel Hafez, Sadat's personal secretary, who received wounds in the lung and hip.

-Sayed Marei, a Sadat adviser and in-law, who suffered wounds in the right hip.

-Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nabih El-Sayed, commander of army training, wounded in the left hip.

-Mahmoud Abdel Nasser, Sadat's secretary-general, whose arm was broken.

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