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Thousands gather in Cairo to mourn former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

Subscribe to the Evening Standard on YouTube:    / @thelondonstandard   Dozens of supporters of former president Hosni Mubarak gathered Wednesday outside the cemetery where he will be buried. They held posters of the late president and chanted in mourning. Egypt held a full-honors military funeral Wednesday for the country's former autocrat, who held power for decades before he was ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that swept much of the region. The funeral, replete with cannon fire and a horse-drawn carriage carrying his coffin, highlighted the wartime achievements of Mubarak. It comes as part of a government effort to make Mubarak's military career his legacy, rather than his time in office. Egypt's current President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attended briefly, offering condolences and shaking hands with Mubarak's two sons, Alaa and Gamal, and his wife Suzanne.