Police kills suspected Berlin pride parade perpetrator

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed during a confrontation with police on Sunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said.

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin.

Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin's Pride festival Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist terror attack.

Ballout was tracked down around 6pm Sunday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city's police department wrote on X.

They said he apparently ran toward officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalised in 2002, three years before he was born.