German cops hunt suspect after deadly car ramming near Berlin Pride festival
A suspect believed to have links to 'Islamist circles' has been 'identified' but not yet arrested.
BERLIN : German police searched on Sunday for a suspect believed linked to Islamist circles after a car ploughed into a crowd near Berlin’s Gay Pride celebrations, killing one person and wounding 16 others. The incident shattered what had been a day of celebration for hundreds of thousands attending Christopher Street Day, one of Europe’s largest Pride events, and left revellers fleeing a central Berlin park as sirens echoed through the night.
Police told AFP the suspected vehicle was later found abandoned a few hundred metres from the heart of the festivities in Tiergarten park.
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