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G . “The severity of the incident is pot something that. could be anticipated,” Meese said, noting that the FBI ° | high-powered weapons. The agents “juét té come up an” the ts. Pe pene al eu i ‘ Pi tiand Matix nada Colt AR-15 assault rifle anda - Ruger Mini-14 semi-auiomatic rifle, One agent hada | #a0 and the rest had standard-issvue bandguas. Niicials said the deaths and injurles made 44 the worst gunbatle in the FRI's 76-year history, bringing — to 26 the number of ugents killed on duty. : Meese said the three agents he visited were is good 1a. “I just told them how gratefal we were for their : courageous actions,” Meese inld reporters at Baptist Hospital alter spending about 20 minutes with MeNelll and Henion. * Both are in serious but stable condition In the crifi- : cal care unit affer surgery to repair hand wounds. McNeil also has a chest wound and Hanlon has # thigh “wound, a hospital spokeswoman said. At South Miami Hosnital, Meese gsnoke about 16 minutes with Mireles, 38, and said be told the agent be was “grateful for his beroie work.” . * Mireles ls in fair condition after surgery to repai his fractured jeft arm and remove shotgun pellets , from his forebead,.a hospital spokesman said. Special agents Manauen and Orrantia were treated for minor in ries und released from Jackson Maemo- vial Hospital in Miamd. > * Grogan's funeral is set for 1 pm. at Visitation Catholic Church in Miami, with Archbishop Kdward MeCariby officiating. ‘ Dove, an agent since 1982 and former. ooup- a sel for the West Virginia State Police, will bet Tuesday in St. Albans, W.Va. . oe Meese was accompanied by Deputy Attorney Gen- eral Lowell Jensen, FBI Assistant Executive Director Oliver Revell, Joseph Corless, special agent in charge ° of the FBI's Milam! office, and Leos Kellner, U.S. attorney for the southern district of Florida. This report was eapple : ict port pp sented by Sue-Seative? wire ad