Ashli Babbit was shot in the Capitol riots
Three other people died from "medical emergencies", officials said.
U. Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick died of injuries suffered during the riot, the force said in a statement late on Thursday.
"Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots…and was injured while physically engaging with protesters," police said in a statement.
He succumbed on Thursday after being taken to hospital following his collapse upon returning to his divisional office, they added.
Many more people have been injured.
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How have the authorities responded?
A 6pm citywide curfew was announced as evening approached. The events were widely described as a dark day for American democracy.
The entire District of Columbia National Guard, made up of 1,100 troops, was ordered into the city at the request of Washington mayor Muriel Bowser.
Fifty-two people have so far been arrested.
Robert Contee, DC’s Chief of Police, said firearms have been recovered by officers, including long guns and hand guns.
Two pipe bombs were found near the Democrat and Republican party headquarters, according to reports.
The mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, has also extended the Emergency Declaration until Jan 21, the day after Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony.
This gives city officials the power to order people off the street if a curfew is issued, reduce the hours of operation for businesses across the city, and expend funds as needed to protect public safety.
The mayor shared: "President Trump continues to fan rage and violence by contending that the Presidential election was invalid," adding, "some persons can be expected to continue their violent protests through the inauguration."
One protester got into the office of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House
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What has Donald Trump said?
Mr Trump had addressed the crowds hours before they marched on the Capitol, telling them to “stop the steal” and doubling down on his false claims of election victory.
As the violence broke out Mr Trump later called for calm, tweeting: “I am asking for everyone at the US Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence!”
Mr Trump later released a video calling his supporters to go home. He said: “You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.”
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
But moments later, the president doubled down on his baseless claims of election fraud. Even as the Capitol is being assaulted, Donald Trump is continuing to tweet false claims that the election has been stolen.
On Thursday evening, Mr Trump acknowledgedthat a new US administration will take over on January 20 and condemned the mob that stormed the Capitol during a conciliatory new video address.
In a message of unity delivered to the camera, the US president said his supporters who broke into the Capitol had “defiled the seat of American democracy”.
Mr Trump called for punishments for those who had broken the law and urged calm, saying that “tempers must be cooled and calm restored”.
He also promised to work towards the “smooth, orderly and seamless transfer of power” in what was his firmest drawing of a line under the election results to date.
In his latest tweet, he claims that the vote has been "unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots":
There are growing calls for Facebook and Twitter to remove the president’s incendiary posts, or delete his accounts entirely.
What has Joe Biden said?
Mr Biden condemned the violence and called on protesters to fall back in a statement delivered to the cameras on Wednesday afternoon (see video below).
"Let me be very clear. The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America [and] do not represent who we are," the president-elect said.
“What we’re seeing are a small number of extremists dedicated to lawlessness. This is not dissent, it’s disorder. It’s chaos. It borders on sedition. And it must end now.
“I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward.”
Mr Pence issued a more forceful call for protesters to depart. "This attack on our Capitol will not be tolerated and those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," he wrote on Twitter.
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said that "violence is intolerable" and that the actions of the protesters were unacceptable.
The storming of the U.S. Capitol today is unacceptable. Lawlessness and rioting — here or around the world — is always unacceptable. I have travelled to many countries and always support the right of every human being to protest peacefully for their beliefs and their causes.
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 6, 2021
Read more: Joe Biden’s speech in full
How Washington reacted
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Party leaders in the US House of Representatives and Senate respectively, demanded Mr Trump’s immediate removal amid outrage at his actions before the US Capitol was stormed by a mob of his supporters.
They publicly called on Mike Pence, the US vice president, to invoke the 25th Amendment, a mechanism that removes a president who is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office".
A wave of top officials quit the White House on Wednesday, turning their backs on Mr Trump.
A number of White House staff, including Sarah Matthews, the deputy press secretary, and Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump’s chief of staff, resigned effective immediately. It was also reported on Wednesday evening that Chris Liddell, the president’s deputy chief of staff, has quit.
The US media reported that Mr Trump’s Cabinet secretaries were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president. The amendment theoretically allows for the removal of a president who is incapacitated or unwilling to perform their duties.
Seventeen Democratic congressmen signed a letter on Wednesday night calling on Mike Pence to enact the amendment and remove Mr Trump.
Read more: Top Republicans turn on Trump after day of chaos
How the world reacted
Boris Johnson called on the US to restore the rule of law. "Disgraceful scenes in US Congress, the British prime minister tweeted.
"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power. "
EU officials expressed shock at the "assault on US democracy".
"To witness tonight’s scenes in Washington DC is a shock," European Council president Charles Michel tweeted.
"In the eyes of the world, American democracy tonight appears under siege," the European Union’s foreign policy supremo Josep Borrell said, in a separate tweet.
"This is an unseen assault on US democracy, its institutions and the rule of law. This is not America. The election results of 3 November must be fully respected," Mr Borrell said, referring to the US presidential election that saw Trump beaten by Joe Biden.
"The strength of US democracy will prevail over extremist individuals," Mr Borrell said.
Speaking to Sky News, Kim Darroch, the UK’s former ambassador to the US, shared his belief that Mr Trump was not fit to be president, before suggesting Number 10 "got too close" to the Trump presidency.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has announced she is "furious and saddened" by the violence seen in Washington DC, and said Mr Trump shares the blame for the unrest among his supporters.
"I deeply regret that President Trump has not conceded his defeat, since November and again yesterday," she said, before adding:
"Doubts about the election outcome were stoked and created the atmosphere that made the events of last night possible."
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has labelled the US electoral system as "archaic", before saying it does not meet democratic standards- blaming the media’s politicisation for the deep unrest in the American capital.
Speaking to Russian news agencies, she shared: "The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meed modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle".
Furthermore, a senior Russian lawmaker has said American democracy is "limping on both feet". In a post on Facebook, Konstantin Kosachyov, the chair of the Russian upper house’s foreign affairs committee continued:
"The celebration of democracy has ended. It has, unfortunately, hit rock bottom, and I say this without a hint of gloating."
"America no longer charts the course and so has lost all right to set it. And, even more so, to impose it on others."
However, Chinese officials have indeed gloated over the chaos seen in DC. The state-owned outlets mocked US politicians who had spoken out in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong storming the city’s legislative building in 2018:
"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as a ‘beautiful sight to behold’ – it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill," read the Communist Party outlet, the Global Times, in their pinned tweet.
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