A suspected man known to Berlin police as a member of the city’s Islamist scene, drove a white van into a crowd near Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations on Saturday night, killing one person and injuring at least 16 others. Several victims suffered life-threatening injuries.
The vehicle entered Berlin’s Tiergarten shortly before 10 PM, from Lennéstraße, and struck several people along a park pathway before crashing into a tree. The driver abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot, prompting a large-scale police manhunt. Police operations to locate and detain him were continuing.
Witnesses also described suspects coming out of the van and attacking people with knives.
This is not the first time that Gay Pride marches in Berlin have been attacked by with the last attacks taking place in 2016.
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