US police shot a female motorist dead on Thursday after she led them on a wild high-speed chase from the White House through downtown Washington to the Capitol building.

Lawmakers and tourists scattered and ducked for cover as shots rang out during a police operation to halt the woman, who was driving with a one-year-old child in her black Infiniti luxury sedan.

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