National Guard member dies after shooting in Washington DC
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
President Trump says that one of the US National Guard soldiers who was shot on Wednesday in Washington has died. Sarah Beckstrom was twenty. Mr Trump said the other soldier, Andrew Wolfe, was in a serious condition, as was the suspected gunman, Rahmanullah Lakanwal. He's an Afghan national who'd worked with the CIA in Afghanistan. Also: Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. More than ninety people are now known to have died in Hong Kong's worst fire in decades. Surprising and rather gruesome new evidence has been found about how cats became domesticated; and we hear about a church in the US where worshippers are encouraged to hold poisonous snakes.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Janet Jaliel and in the early hours of Friday the 28th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:17.9 | President Trump says one of the two US National Guard soldiers shot in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:23.0 | on Wednesday, has died from her injuries. Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces |
| 0:29.2 | shooting dead to Palestinians who appear to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:35.2 | More than 90 people are now known to have died in Hong Kong's worst fire |
| 0:39.9 | in decades. Also in this podcast, what we love about cats is that they look amazing and |
| 0:47.1 | they act amazing. And in this case, we just had to murder them first in order to sort of |
| 0:50.8 | celebrate that loveliness about them. Surprising and rather gruesome new evidence has been found |
| 0:57.3 | about how cats became domesticated. |
| 1:06.1 | Thanksgiving in the US has turned to tragedy |
| 1:09.0 | for the family of a member of the National Guard |
| 1:11.3 | who was shot just yards from the White House on Wednesday. |
| 1:15.5 | President Trump announced that the soldier who was just 20 years old had died from her injuries. |
| 1:22.0 | Right now I heard that Sarah Bextram of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we're talking about, |
| 1:30.8 | highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023. |
| 1:38.5 | Outstanding in every way, she's just passed away. |
| 1:42.3 | She's no longer with us. |
| 1:43.5 | She's looking down at us right now. |
| 1:46.6 | Her colleague, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, is still fighting for his life after being left in a critical condition. |
| 1:53.7 | A suspect has been named as Ramanullah Lakamwal, an Afghan national who was shot by other National Guard members at the scene and detained. |
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