Policemen guard outside the cemetary where the lawyers of ousted Egyptian Islamist President Mohamed Mursi say he was buried, early morning in Cairo, Egypt June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
CAIRO (Reuters) - Modern Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Mursi, was buried in a small family ceremony on Tuesday, a day after suffering a fatal heart attack in court at a Cairo prison, his sons said.
The Islamist ex-president's death after six years in jail under the military-backed establishment that ousted him in 2013 stoked anger among his supporters in Egypt and abroad.
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