One of two US national guard soldiers shot in a targeted attack near the White House this week has died, while the second is fighting for his life, Donald Trump has announced.

As part of his Thanksgiving call to US troops late on Thursday, the US president said he had been informed that Sarah Beckstrom, 20, had succumbed to her wounds.

“Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person … She’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” Trump said in his first live remarks since the shooting on Wednesday .

View image in fullscreen Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe, 24, is ‘fighting for his life’, Trump said. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

Trump added that the second guard member, Staff Sgt Andrew Wolfe, 24, wa

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