Washington, DC – A man who allegedly attacked two National Guard members in the United States capital has been charged with murder after one of his victims died from her wounds.

The updated charges were announced on Friday by Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for Washington, DC.

They came two days after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, shot West Virginia National Guard members Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and Andrew Wolfe, 24, just blocks from the White House.

Late Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced that Beckstrom, who had been deployed to the capital as part of what the president has framed as an anti-crime drive, had died of her wounds.

Pirro made the announcement on the Fox and Friends TV programme, a day after she said that Washington state resident Lakanw

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