Van Slams Into Pride Crowd

A van drove into a crowd during Berlin's famed LGBTQ+ event on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the celebrations and a concert in the German capital hours after it had begun. Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. In a post on X, police called on everyone to leave the site immediately, the AP reports. "We are conducting an intensive search for possible suspects," officer Florian Nath said in a short video released on the Berlin police account.

According to police, a white van had driven into the Tiergarten park, just off the route that the pride march had passed along earlier, and hit several people before smashing into a tree. Hundreds of thousands of people had come to Berlin on Saturday to celebrate at Berlin's pride parade, known in Germany as Christopher Street Day. It's one of Europe's largest LGBTQ+ celebrations. The event in front of the city's iconic Brandenburg Gate downtown, near Tiergarten, was called off around 10:15pm as a band performed onstage. People had been celebrating peacefully for hours, per NBC News, marching through the city, dancing to loud music, and cheering the 80 or so floats in the parade.