German police said Sunday they had shot and killed the chief suspect in what officials described as a deadly Islamist attack near the Berlin Pride parade the previous night, the latest ramming assault to hit the country.The attack late Saturday -- the first such incident to target the German capital's LGBTQ community -- killed one woman and wounded 29 others.
Berlin police said on X that they had traced the chief suspect, 21-year old Abdul Ballout, to an allotment complex in the western Spandau district at around 6 p.m. on Sunday.
Ballout "ran towards them with a bladed weapon", the police said, prompting officers to open fire, "injuring the suspect so that he died at the scene despite attempts to resuscitate him".
Earlier, prosecutors had said that Ballout, a German citizen of Lebanese origin, had been a supporter of the so-called Islamic State group (IS) with several criminal convictions, the latest dating from May.
Saturday's attack shattered what had been a day of celebration for hundreds of thousands attending Christopher Street Day (CSD), one of Europe's largest Pride events.
