1 killed, several injured at Berlin pride parade, after car drives into crowd
A car drove into a crowd during Berlin’s famed LGBTQ parade on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital hours after it had begun.
Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. Firefighters and ambulances were out with many emergency workers at the scene to attend to the victims.
In a social media post, police called on everyone to leave the premises of the event immediately. According to police, a car had driven into the Tiergarten park, near the route of the pride march, hitting several people.
Police did not know how many officers had been deployed to the scene but that it was “definitely a lot of police”. They said they were searching for suspects.
“We are conducting an intensive search for possible suspects,” a police officer said in a short video released on the Berlin police social media account.
Hundreds of thousands of people had come to Berlin on Saturday to celebrate at Berlin’s pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day.