1 killed, several injured at Berlin pride parade, after van drives into crowd
Some of the victims have life-threatening injuries, and the event has been called off
A van slammed into people gathered for Berlin’s famed LGBTQ event on Saturday, killing one person, injuring at least 16 others and prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after they had begun.
Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. In a social media post, police called on everyone to leave the site of the event immediately as ambulances and firefighters attended to the victims.
According to police, a white van had driven into the Tiergarten park, which is next to the route that the pride march had passed along earlier, and hit several people before colliding with a tree.
Police could not say how many officers had been deployed to the scene but that it was “definitely a lot of police”.
“We are conducting an intensive search for possible suspects,” police officer Florian Nath said in a short video released on the Berlin police social media account.
Police spokesman Alexander Klute said later that “at this point, we don’t know anything about any possible motives, the identity of the perpetrator or the perpetrators, or anything of that nature”.