Lightning strike near White House kills three people

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WASHINGTON, Aug 6 — Three people, including an elderly couple celebrating their 56th wedding anniversary, were pronounced dead Friday after being struck by lightning in a park near the White House.The lightning hit Lafayette Square, a small park across the street from the White House, shortly before 7.00pm (2300 GMT) Thursday, leaving two men and two women with “critical life-threatening injuries,” according to a statement from Washington’s fire and emergencies department.All the victims were taken to local hospitals, but yesterday morning the Metropolitan Police confirmed that two of them — 75-year-old Donna Mueller and 76-year-old James Mueller, from Janesville in Wisconsin — had been pronounced dead.The couple had been high school sweethearts and were in the capital to mark their wedding anniversary, their niece Michelle McNett told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Later yest…