Berlin Pride attack suspect shot dead by German police

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation overnight, authorities said.Abdul Ballout, a German citizen, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin.Ballout, 21, was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride festival on Saturday night (local time) before apparently stabbing others with a machete.German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt said the attack occurred a few hundred metres from a party near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city's Pride festival.Ballout was tracked down at around 2am AEST on Monday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city's police department said in a post on X It also said it considered that Ballout had confessed to the crimes, appeared to distance himself from the militant group, and no actual threat had ever materialised.He was released from detention pending the appeal.According to police, a white van drove into the Tiergarten park around 10pm on Saturday (local time) and hit several people before colliding with a tree