BERLIN: The chief suspect in a deadly attack near Berlin Pride was shot dead by police on Sunday evening (Jul 26), authorities said, after German police had spent the day hunting for the man in what they called an Islamist terror attack that left one woman dead and 29 others injured.Berlin police said on X that officers located the suspect, previously named as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, at around 6pm (1600 GMT). He "ran towards them with a bladed weapon", prompting officers to open fire and kill him.Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt named the chief suspect as 21-year-old Abdul Ballout, whom German media reported was a supporter of the so-called Islamic State group (IS) with a criminal conviction dating from just this May.The incident late on Saturday shattered what had been a day of celebration for hundreds of thousands attending Christopher Street Day (CSD), one of Europe's largest Pride events.HOW THE ATTACK UNFOLDED
Shortly before 10pm on Saturday (4am Singapore, Sunday), a white vehicle ran into people on the southern edge of central Berlin's Tiergarten park before crashing into a tree.Dobrindt said Ballout was suspected of then using a machete to attack more people.He said 29 people were hurt, some of them with life-threatening injuries.Police had spent Sunday combing the ground near the car, a Citroen minivan with a Berlin number plate, for clues and taking samples of material from the scene, before locating and killing Ballout later that evening.
